The half-life of a radioactive isotope is:
A) the time it takes for half the atoms of the radioactive isotope in one sample to decay.
B) half of one radioactive atom.
C) the time it takes for all atoms of the radioactive isotope in one sample to decay.
D) the electron of one radioactive atom.
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