How do scientists know the half life of a substance when the half life is longer than the time we have known about the substance?

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How do scientists know the half life of a substance when the half life is longer than the time we have known about the substance?

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We can precisely measure the radiation of a substance and check how much times it takes for it to lose 1% of radiation and with that and a little bit of math we can calculate the half life.

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