Let's say that you collected a rock while on spring break. Suppose you want to know the absolute age of a rock sample so you have the isotopic composition of the rock analyzed. Suppose the laboratory report indicates there are 7 times as much daughter isotope as parent isotope in the rock. Given that the half-life of the isotope pair is 280 million years, how old is the rock sample? 4500 million years 280 million years 840 million years 1 million years 2240 million years
Let's say that you collected a rock while on spring break. Suppose you want to know the absolute age of a rock sample so you have the isotopic composition of the rock analyzed. Suppose the laboratory report indicates there are 7 times as much daughter isotope as parent isotope in the rock. Given that the half-life of the isotope pair is 280 million years, how old is the rock sample? 4500 million years 280 million years 840 million years 1 million years 2240 million years
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Let's say that you collected a rock while on spring break. Suppose you want to know the absolute age of a rock sample so you have the isotopic composition of the rock analyzed. Suppose the laboratory report indicates there are 7 times as much daughter isotope as parent isotope in the rock. Given that the half-life of the isotope pair is 280 million years, how old is the rock sample?
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4500 million years |
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280 million years |
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840 million years |
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1 million years |
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2240 million years |
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