How are we able to measure the half life of uranium-238 if it’s 4.5 billion years?

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Tried looking it up and it got complicated real quick.

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Simple answer: half-life is a speed measure. It could be quarter-life or one-billionth-life. Calculate one and multiply like you convert mph to kmph.

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