12. Dinosaur fossils are too old to be reliably dated usingcarbon-14. (See Exercise 11.) Suppose we had a 68-million-year-old dinosaur fossil. What fraction of the living dino-saur's ¹4C would be remaining today? Suppose the minimumdetectable amount is 0.1%. What is the maximum age of afossil that we could date using ¹4C?

half-life of C-14 isotope, t1/2 = 5730 years Disintigration constant, λ = ln(2)t1/2 =…

12. Dinosaur fossils are too old to be reliably dated using carbon-14. (See Exercise 11.) Suppose we had a 68-million- year-old dinosaur fossil. What fraction of the living dino- saur's ¹C would be remaining today? Suppose the minimum detectable amount is 0.1%. What is the maximum age of a fossil that we could date using ¹4C?

12. Dinosaur fossils are too old to be reliably dated using carbon-14. (See Exercise 11.) Suppose we had a 68-million- year-old dinosaur fossil. What fraction of the living dino- saur's ¹C would be remaining today? Suppose the minimum detectable amount is 0.1%. What is the maximum age of a fossil that we could date using ¹4C?

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