The You-Yangs are a series of rocky granite ridges to the south-west of Melbourne, whose rocks contain crystals of titanite. A field student measures 98.27% of the titanite crystals contain the thorium isotope 232Th. If thorium has a half-life of 7/1/2 = 14 x 10⁹ years, what is the student's estimate of the age of the You-Yangs? (Units: Years)

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The concept of Half Life has numerous practical applications some of them includes figuring out the effective drug dosage to finding out when a radioactive becomes safe to use. If you look for a career in Nuclear Physics you will need this concept.