What is the reason radioactive decay is measured in half-life’s instead of just using the elements “full-life”?

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Is there something special about the halfway point? Does the decay happen at a steady pace or exponentially?

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It’s not linear, but exponential decay.
After a few half life’s, the substance will still be around but in much smaller and often safe quantities, but it would take huge amounts of time to completely decay.

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