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Old 11-21-2006, 09:18 PM   #2 (permalink)
Amano
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Consider it like a kinetic process

140Ba ---(k1)---> 140 La ---(k2)---> 140Ce

You should be able to write two ODE's for Ba and La based on the half lives. Solve for the two. At first glance, it looks like it will involve a 1st order linear ODE.
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