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Consider a radioactive nucleus A which decays to a stable nucleus C through the following sequence
`A to B to C`
Here B is an intermediate nuclei which is also radioactive. Considering that there are `N_(0)` atoms of A initially , plot the praph showing the variation of number of atoms of A and B versus time.

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Given that the radioactive decay of A to form the stable nucleus C is through the sequence
`A to B to C`
At t = 0,`N_(A)=N_(0)` and `N_(B)=0`. As time increases, `N_(A)` falls off exponentially, the number of atoms of B increases, becomes maximum and finally decay to zero at infinity as shown in the following figure:
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