The value of 27.7 ± 0.4 years has been obtained for the half-life of Sr90 from the absolute disintegration rate of a known number of atoms. The disintegration rate was measured with a 4π proportional counter and the number of atoms was determined with a mass spectrometer using isotope dilution.
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