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I teach Physiccal science and got one of the best questions I've heard in ages from one of my brighter students today. We're on radioactivity and after introducing them to it, I stated that the decay continues at a rate unchanged regardless of wether or not the element is combined chemically with another one, temperature, etc... One of my students then asked, "If 0 Kelvin is considered the temperature at which all molecular motion stops, does the decay continue? In theory, I guess it would but yet my understanding of radioactive decay is that it continues regardless of physical or chemical conditions.
Re: Does radioactive decay cease at 0 Kelvin?
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