{"id":247,"date":"2016-08-20T08:29:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T08:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labnetwest.colourfi.com\/?p=247"},"modified":"2025-12-22T06:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:03:51","slug":"half-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/half-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-life:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an experiment for demonstrating radioactive decay and half-life.<br \/>\n1.Get a packet of M&Ms (they only have an M on one side)<br \/>\n2.Count the M&Ms.<br \/>\n3.Place them in a beaker, shake and pour out onto a plate.<br \/>\n4.Remove the M&Ms that land face-up. These have decayed and need to be eaten immediately.<br \/>\n5.Count the remaining number of M&Ms.<br \/>\n6.Repeat steps 3 to 5 until finished.<br \/>\n7.Plot a graph of the remaining M&Ms and marvel at the shape of the best decay curve you have ever seen.<br \/>\nBeats Uranyl Nitrate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an experiment for demonstrating radioactive decay and half-life. 1.Get a packet of M&#038;Ms (they only have an M on one side) 2.Count the M&#038;Ms. 3.Place them in a beaker, shake and pour out onto a plate. 4.Remove the M&#038;Ms that land face-up. These have decayed and need to be eaten immediately. 5.Count the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,19,17],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","tag-half-life","tag-mms","tag-radioactivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciderhousetest.com\/labnetwest26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}