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(A) What Percent of the Original Polonium-215 Is Left After

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 Polonium-215, 21584Po, undergoes alpha decay with a half-life of 1.8 ms.\text { Polonium-215, } \begin{array} { c } 215 \\84\end{array} \mathrm { Po } , \text { undergoes alpha decay with a half-life of } 1.8 \mathrm {~ms} . (a) What percent of the original polonium-215 is left after 0.010 s?
(b) How many protons and neutrons does the daughter nucleus contain?

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(a) 2.1% (...

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