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Question 1

44 g of petrified wood was found in a petrified forest. A sample showed a 14C activity of 100 decays/minute. How long has the tree been dead (in years)? (The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years and freshly cut wood contains 6.5 × 1010 atoms of 14C per gram.)

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12300

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15600

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8500

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4700

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2400


Question 2

A glass container holds equal numbers of atoms of phosphorus 30 with a half-life of 2.5 minutes and of nitrogen 13 with a half-life of 10 minutes. After 20 minutes the ratio of the number of nitrogen atoms remaining to the number of phosphorus atoms remaining is

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64.

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256.
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Reply #1 on: Aug 10, 2020
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