21st Century Astronomy And Learning Astronomy By Doing Astronomy (fifth Edition)
21st Century Astronomy And Learning Astronomy By Doing Astronomy (fifth Edition)
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ISBN: 9780393613360
Author: Laura Kay, Ana Larson, Stacy Palen, George Blumenthal
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Chapter 8, Problem 41QP

(a)

To determine

The number of half-lives will the sample have remaining only 1/64 of original carbon-14.

(b)

To determine

The time taken to complete six half-lives.

(c)

To determine

Whether it is possible to overestimate or underestimate the age of a sample if daughter nuclei were present in the sample when it formed.

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