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Radioactive Decay for a battery cell
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exponential decay · half-life
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Every half-life, half the remaining atoms decay. After n half-lives, only (1/2)ⁿ is left — the basis of carbon dating and nuclear physics.
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Reading this result: Each half-life removes half of whatever remains, so the curve falls steeply at first and then flattens into a long tail.
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