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An ancient club is found that contains 190 g of pure carbon and has an activity...

An ancient club is found that contains 190 g of pure carbon and has an activity of 4.5 decays per second. Determine its age assuming that in living trees the ratio of (14C/12C) atoms is about 1.00 × 10-12. Note that the half life of carbon-14 is 5700 years and the Avogadro number is 6.02 × 1023.

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First, calculate the decay constant for 14C, which has a half-life of 5700 years.
decay constant=In2/ T1/2
=In2/ (5700 years)
=1.2160x10^-4 y^-1

The number of 14C nuclei can be calculated in two steps.
First, the number of 12C nuclei in 190 g of carbon is
N(12C)= (6.02 x 10^23 nuclei/mol) x (190g)/ 12.0 g/mol
=9.5317x10^24 nuclei


Ratio of 14C to 12C is 1.00 x 10^-12

N<original>(14C) = (1.00 x 10^-12) (6.5317x10^24)
= 9.5317x 10^12 nuclei

Therefore, the initial activity of the sample is
R<o>= decay constant x N<o>
=(1.216x10^-4 y^-1)(9.5317x 10^12 nuclei)
= 11.5905x10^8 decays/y

Now calculate the age of the ancient club using Equation R=(R<o>)(e^(-decay constant x time), which relates the activity R at any time t to the initial activity R<o>:
R = R<o>e^(-decay constant x t)
R/ R<o> =e^(-decay constant x t)

Given that R=6(3.1526x10^7) decays/y.
We found that R<o> = 11.5905x10^8 decays/y.
Calculate t by taking the natural logarithm of both sides of the last equation:

ln(R/R<o>)=In e^(-decay constant x t)
-decay constant x t = ln(R/R<o>)
-1.216x10^-4 t= -1.81278
t=14907.762 years

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