Chemistry: Structure and Properties Custom Edition for Rutgers University General Chemistry
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Chapter 15, Problem 103E
Anthropologists can estimate the age of a bone or other sample of organic matter by as carbon-14 content. The carbon-14 in a living organism dies, after which carbon-14 decays with first-order kinetics and a half-life of 5730 years. Suppose a bone from an ancient human contains 19.5% of the C-14 found in living organisms. How old is the bone?
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