Half life is just .. In this first chart, we have a radioactive substance with a half life of 5 years. As you can see, the substance initially has 100% of its atoms, but after its first half life (5 years) only 50% of the radioactive atoms are left. That's what 'half life' means. More @Wikipedia
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