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							    | Find half-life period of radioactive isotopes of different elements; find its decay type and list of particle emitted. Half-life is the time required for a quantity of radioactive element to reduce to half of its initial value. |   
								
								
 Half-life period of Carbon (C)
| Element | Mass | Symbol | Decay Type | Half-Life | 
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 | Carbon | 10 | 10C |  | 19.29 seconds  |  | Carbon | 11 | 11C |  | 20.35 minutes  |  | Carbon | 14 | 14C | Beta decay (ß-) | 5,730 years |  | Carbon | 15 | 15C |  | 2.449 seconds  |  | Carbon | 16 | 16C |  | 747 milliseconds |  | Carbon | 17 | 17C |  | 193 milliseconds |  | Carbon | 18 | 18C |  | 92 milliseconds |  | Carbon | 19 | 19C |  | 46.2 milliseconds |  | Carbon | 20 | 20C |  | 16 milliseconds |  | Carbon | 21 | 21C |  | 30 x 10-9 seconds |  | Carbon | 22 | 22C |  | 6.2 milliseconds |  | Carbon | 8 | 8C |  | 2 x 10-21 seconds |  | Carbon | 9 | 9C |  | 126.5 milliseconds |  
  
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