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JEE Advanced2024Paper 2CHEM-III
Q.

A sample initially contains only U-238 isotope of uranium. With time, some of the U-238 radioactively decays into Pb-206 while the rest of it remains undisintegrated.

When the age of the sample is years, the ratio of mass of Pb-206 to that of U-238 in the sample is found to be . The value of is______.

[Given: Half-life of U-238 is years; ]

Solution

Let the initial moles of U-238 be and the current moles be . Then moles of Pb-206 produced .

The mass ratio

Solving:

Using first-order decay with :

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