2 Answered Questions for the topic Radioactivity And Carbon Dating

Radioactivity And Carbon Dating Chemistry Astronomy Astrophysics

09/29/18

If at the formation of the Earth we had a rock with 1000 atoms of Potassium-40 inside, about how many Argon-40 atoms would be found in that rock today?
Potassium-40 decays to Argon-40 with a half-life of 1.25 billion years.   Multiple choice options   <<1 1  25 100 250 500 999
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Radioactivity And Carbon Dating Word Problem Functions Exponential Functions

04/17/18

radio active substance decay word problem exponential functions
Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with 10 micrograms of the radioactive substance Polonium-210. Since radioactive decay follows a compounded continuously model, we can determine the amount of... more
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