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Deadly_king:

--- Quote from: Dania on November 11, 2010, 05:23:05 pm ---Can you give me the right definitions of "SPONTANEOUS" and "RANDOM" in context to radioactive decay?

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Here you are. ;)

Spontaneous decay refers to the fact that the decay cannot be induced, nuclei disintegrate on their own. The decay being continuous and rate of decay being independent of physical factors such as temperature.

Random decay indicates that the decay is probabilistic having a constant probability of decay per unit time. We cannot predict which nucleus will disintegrate and each disintegration being independent of other disintegrations.

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