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Why wouldn't you use carbon-14 dating on a piece of shell that was estimated to be 1 million years old?
 
  A) Sea shells do not have radioisotopes.
  B) Carbon dating is only useful on plants.
  C) Uranium dating is better for items older than 1/2 million years.
  D) Carbon dating can only be used on items that were once alive.
  E) The amount of radioactive carbon in the sample would probably too small to measure.

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When a beam of light, originally traveling in air, enters a piece of glass having an index of refraction of 3/2, its speed
 
  A) increases by a factor of 3/2.
  B) is reduced to 2/3 its original value.
  C) is unaffected.
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Reply #1 on: Jul 29, 2018
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Reply #2 on: Jul 29, 2018
Both answers were spot on, thank you once again


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