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Why is the concept of half-life not useful for predicting the decay of a specific, single radioactive nucleus?.
- A.The half-life only applies to stable isotopes.
- B.A single nucleus cannot have a half-life.
- C.Half-life is a statistical measure for large populations, not for individual random events.
- D.The half-life changes for very small samples.
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