You can detect ionising radiation by:
photographic film and The Geiger-Muller tube.
Background radiation:
Earths rocks
Cosmic rays
Medical
Nuclear power and weapons.
The rate of decay is measured in bacquerels (one decay per second)
The half-life of a radioactive isotope t½ is the time taken for half the original number of unstable nuclei to decay.
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