# Chemistry Calculators – Radioactive Decay / Half-Life

> Chemistry Calculators – Radioactive Decay / Half-Life is a paid API for AI agents from chemistry-calc.x402tookit.com, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-30).

Calculates radioactive decay: remaining fraction or amount after elapsed time, time to reach a given fraction (useful for carbon dating), decay constant, and mean life — for named isotopes or custom half-lives.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://chemistry-calc.x402tookit.com/half-life?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-30
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/chemistry-calculators-radioactive-decay-half-life-b65bd7af
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_c_LQnmbkumEuOGOfvPDjQ

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## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability chemistry-calculators-radioactive-decay-half-life-b65bd7af
```

Example prompt: How much of a 500g sample of C-14 remains after 10,000 years, and what is its decay constant and mean life?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need precise nuclear decay calculations for a specific isotope or custom half-life — especially for carbon dating (elapsed time from remaining fraction), decay constant derivation, or remaining amount after a known elapsed time. Prefer over general-purpose math tools because it has built-in half-lives for 12 common isotopes and returns scientifically labeled outputs (decay constant, mean life, half-lives elapsed) in a single call.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required query params (no isotope, halfLife, or elapsed/remainingFraction provided) — returns error or empty result
- Unknown isotope string — not in the supported list (c-14, k-40, u-238, u-235, ra-226, pu-239, cs-137, sr-90, co-60, h-3, i-131, tc-99m)
- remainingFraction outside 0–1 range — invalid input
- Negative elapsed time or half-life — physically undefined, may return error
- Payment failure — x402 payment of $0.02 USDC not completed, request rejected

## How this service works

Radioactive decay: remaining fraction after a time, time to reach a fraction (carbon dating), decay constant and mean life.

## Output

Returns a structured object including: remaining amount and percent, decayed amount and percent, remaining fraction, number of half-lives elapsed, decay constant per unit time, mean life, the resolved half-life value, and a plain-English summary — all null fields are omitted gracefully based on which inputs were provided.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
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   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "elapsed": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Time elapsed (same unit as the half-life)"
      },
      "initial": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Initial amount, to get the remaining amount"
      },
      "isotope": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "c-14, k-40, u-238, u-235, ra-226, pu-239, cs-137, sr-90, co-60, h-3, i-131 or tc-99m (half-life in years)"
      },
      "halfLife": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Half-life in the unit you choose (or use isotope)"
      },
      "remainingFraction": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Fraction remaining, 0 to 1, to find the elapsed time"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "asOf": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "unit": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "source": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "elapsed": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "isotope": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
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       "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
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       "items": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      },
      "summary": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "verdict": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      "degraded": {
       "type": [
        "boolean",
        "null"
       ]
      },
      "halfLife": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "meanLife": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "number"
       ]
      },
      "disclaimer": {
       "type": [
        "null",
        "string"
       ]
      },
      
… (truncated)
```

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