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Radioactive Half-life Years Element A Remaining Radioactive Atoms Element B Remaining Radioactive Atoms Element C Remaining...

Radioactive Half-life

Years

Element A Remaining Radioactive Atoms

Element B Remaining Radioactive Atoms

Element C Remaining Radioactive Atoms

Element D remaining Radioactive Atoms

0

             100

100

100

100

1000

50

85

90

95

2000

25

72

81

90

3000

13

61

73

86

4000

6

52

66

81

5000

3

44

59

77

6000

2

38

53

74

7000

1

32

48

70

8000

0

27

43

66

9000

0

23

39

63

10000

0

20

35

60

11000

0

17

31

57

12000

0

14

28

54

13000

0

12

25

51

14000

0

10

23

49

15000

0

9

21

46

16000

0

7

19

44

17000

0

6

17

42

18000

0

5

15

40

19000

0

5

14

38

20000

0

4

12

36

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Which of the four hypothetical substances you investigated would be most harmful to living organisms?

What part of an original isotope’s number of atoms remains after two half-lives?

After three half-lives of an isotope, 1 billion (one-eighth) of the original isotope’s atoms still remain in a certain amount of this element. How many atoms of the daughter product would you expect to be present?

By measuring the amounts of parent isotope and daughter product in the minerals contained in a rock, and by knowing the half-life of the parent isotope, a geologist can calculate the absolute age of the rock. A rock contains 125 g of a radioisotope with a half-life of 150,000 years and 875 g of its daughter product. How old I the rock according to the radiometric dating method?

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