Uranium-234 has a half-life of 246,000 years. How did we measure that if the technology to do that hasn’t been around that long?
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The technology has been around since WWII. You can very accurately measure the rate of decay. If you measure the decay in a day, and it’s 5.56 x 10^-9 it’s a simple matter of multiplying that by 365 and dividing 0.5 by the result to get 246,000 as the half life.
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