In an experiment on two radioactive isotopes of an element (which do not decay into…

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In an experiment on two radioactive isotopes of an element (which do not decay into each other), their molar ratio at a given instant is 3. The rapidly decaying isotope has larger mass and an initial activity of 1.0 μCi\mu\text{Ci} . The half-lives of the two isotopes are 12 and 16 hr respectively. What would be the activity of each isotope and their molar ratio after two day?

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