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Consider a radioactive material of half-life `1.0` minute. If one of the nuclei decays now, the next one will decay

A

after `1` minute

B

after `(1)/(log_(e)2)` minute

C

after `1//N` minute, where `N` is the number of nuclei present at that moment

D

after any time

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