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Comment by felixg3

14 hours ago

Half-ing every 5.2-or-so-years?

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PaulHoule  12 hours ago

Within that order of magnitude. Picked Co60 particularly because it is common in commerce, even I used Co60 sources in my cond-mat theory trainee days.

I think it is more like radioactive decay than say, cheese going bad, but maybe I'm wrong. You can't smell the radioactive decay!

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