An archaeologist finds some ancient jewelry made from bone. The jewelry has a carbon mass of...

An archaeologist finds some ancient jewelry made from bone. The jewelry has a carbon mass of 163 g (HINT: Assume all the carbon is ¹²C and determine the number of atoms) and careful measurements show that the remaining ¹⁴C has a current decay rate of 21 decays/s. Determine the age of the bone (and presumably the jewelry). Remember, the ratio of ¹⁴C to ¹²C when the animal died was 1.3×10^-12 & the half-life of ¹⁴C is 5730 y.
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A geologist finds an old rock and wants to determine its age using rubidium-strontium dating. This is possible because ⁸⁷Rb, which has a half-life of 4.75×10¹⁰ y, undergoes β ⁻ decay and becomes ⁸⁷Sr. The geologist determines that the ratio of ⁸⁷Sr to ⁸⁷Rb is 0.289. Assuming there was no ⁸⁷Sr in the rock when it was formed, determine the age of the rock.
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