| Time (minutes) | Amount of Nexarium (grams) | | --- | --- | | 0 | 100 | | 1 | 50 | | 2 | 25 | | 3 | 12.5 | | 4 | 6.25 |
After 3 minutes, there will be 12.5 grams of Nexarium left.
Dr. Taylor needed to understand the rate at which Nexarium was decaying so that she could stabilize it and use it for her energy project. She had heard of a phenomenon called half-life, which described the time it took for a radioactive substance to decay by half. But she needed to calculate the half-life of Nexarium to make any progress.