A laboratory investigation shows that a sample of uranium ore contains 8.11 mg of U (molar mass 238.05079 g/mol) and 2.33 mg of Pb (molar mass 205.97447g/mol). Calculate the age of the ore. The half-life of U is 4.5x10 yr. y

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Q: Cobalt-60 has a half-life of 5.3 years. How many half-livesoccur after 21.2 years?

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Q: Enter your answer in the provided box. A rock sample originally contains 3.20 mg of 238U. How much…

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Q: a) If an object that was once living died 35,500 years ago, what is the exact percentage of the 14C…

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Q: How much of a 0.15 g sample of U-238 after the passage of 3200 years? Half life is 4.01×10⁹ years.

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Q: Enter your answer in the provided box. Strontium–90 is one of the products of the fission of…

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Q: Naturally occurring uranium is composed mostly of 238U and 235U, with relative abundances of 99.28%…

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Q: 1. Gold-198 is used in the diagnose of liver problems. The half-life of Au is 2.69 day. If you begin…

A: Given data: half life of 198Au = 2.69 day Initial concentration of  198Au is 2.8 μg Time = 10.8 day

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Q: Co is used in radiotherapy and has a half-life of 5.26 yr. How long does it take for a sample of 0…

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Q: Naturally occurring uranium is composed mostly of 238U and 235U, with relative abundances of 99.28%…

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Q: A rock contains 0.257 mg of lead-206 for every milligram of uranium-238. The half-life for the decay…

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Q: A 371.9 ng sample of an unknown radioactive substance was placed in storage and its mass measured…

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Writing and Balancing Nuclear Equations

A nuclear equation is a symbolic representation of a nuclear reaction using certain symbols. It is studied in nuclear chemistry and nuclear physics.