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the atoms will decay and reduce to 5000..approx....Guys what exactly is a half-life? For example if I have a bag containing a piece of a radioactive element which has 10,000 atoms in it. It's half life is say, 10 minutes. So what would happen after 10 minutes? The number of atoms in the bag will be reduced to 5000 atoms OR the nuclei of those 10,000 atoms contains half the original number of alpha, beta and gama rays?