1. The radioactive nuclide has a half-life of 17.5 hours. What a 0.0100 g sample after 24.0 hours mass of remains from have elapsed?

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Answer the following questions:
1. The radioactive nuclide has a half-life of 17.5 hours. What
a 0.0100 g sample after 24.0 hours
mass of remains from
have elapsed?
2. The radioactive potassium-40 isotope decays to argon-40
with a half-life of.
a. Write a balanced equation for the reaction.
b. A sample of moon rock is found to contain 18 percent
potassium-40 and 82 percent argon by mass. Calculate
the age of the rock in years.
Transcribed Image Text:Answer the following questions: 1. The radioactive nuclide has a half-life of 17.5 hours. What a 0.0100 g sample after 24.0 hours mass of remains from have elapsed? 2. The radioactive potassium-40 isotope decays to argon-40 with a half-life of. a. Write a balanced equation for the reaction. b. A sample of moon rock is found to contain 18 percent potassium-40 and 82 percent argon by mass. Calculate the age of the rock in years.
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