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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 after (where N is the number of nuclei present at that moment).

A

1 minutes

B

`1/(N log_e 2)` minute

C

`1/N` minute

D

any time.

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