balexander2018 balexander2018
  • 29-04-2022
  • Chemistry
contestada

A fossil is 3 half-life old. Measured Uranium-235 has half-life of 704 million years. How many years old is this fossil?

Respuesta :

vinaabigailmolato vinaabigailmolato
  • 29-04-2022

Answer: Uranium is not a problem in this case, as its radioactivity is very low. This is due to the long half-life. How much uranium will decay per second with a half-life of 700 million years? This is a very insignificant figure.

Answer Link

Otras preguntas

0.003 is 1/10 of what
what is a unit of area with dimensions 1 unit times 1 unit
6/15 in simplest form
In Roman times most people lived in small cities, while during the Middle Ages most people lived in the countryside. All of the following are reasons for this c
Which of the following statements about the disenfranchisement of African Americans in the South is true? The Republican Party refused to allow African Americ
Why did the fur trade of North America expand so quickly from the late sixteenth into the seventeenth century?
How to simplify using the laws of exponents
Francois baked just enough cookies to fill all the orders at his bakery. While the cookies were cooling, a kitchen assistant knocked over a cooling rack and spi
Which of these was a powerful political machine? a. Crédit Mobilier b. "Boss" Tweed c. Tammany Hall d. The Whiskey Ring
What is the multiplicative inverse of 11