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In the fissioning of uranium, the typical amount of energy released per nucleon is
 
  A) 0.025 eV.
  B) 100 MeV
  C) 0.9 MeV.
  D) 200 MeV.
  E) 10 MeV

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An old bone sample contains 321. grams of carbon and its activity is 947. decays/min. (5730. yr half life of Carbon-14)
 
  (a) How many thousand years old is the sample?
  (b) What will be the activity of the sample 2000. yrs from now?


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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

(a) 14. thousand years old
(b) 743. decays/min


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Reply #2 on: Jul 27, 2018
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