An engineering student purchased piece of amber from a local shopping mall. The amber contained the remains of an beetle. Curious to know whether the gem is genuine or not, the student takes the sample to the laboratory and determines the concentration of Carbon-14 (A = 5730 years). After extracting a piece of the trapped beetle with a fine drill, instrument analysis reported that the concentration of Carbon-14 is now only 94%. If there was 100% Carbon-14 when the beetle was trapped, how old is the gem and is it genuine? (Trivia: Amberification is a polymerization process that takes several millions of years. The "youngest" amber is around 16 million years old and can be found in the Dominican Republic). O 23,000 years old (counterfeit) O 51 million years old (genuine) O 23 million years old (genuine) O 510 years old (counterfeit)
An engineering student purchased piece of amber from a local shopping mall. The amber contained the remains of an beetle. Curious to know whether the gem is genuine or not, the student takes the sample to the laboratory and determines the concentration of Carbon-14 (A = 5730 years). After extracting a piece of the trapped beetle with a fine drill, instrument analysis reported that the concentration of Carbon-14 is now only 94%. If there was 100% Carbon-14 when the beetle was trapped, how old is the gem and is it genuine? (Trivia: Amberification is a polymerization process that takes several millions of years. The "youngest" amber is around 16 million years old and can be found in the Dominican Republic). O 23,000 years old (counterfeit) O 51 million years old (genuine) O 23 million years old (genuine) O 510 years old (counterfeit)
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Transcribed Image Text:An engineering student purchased piece of amber from a local shopping mall.
The amber contained the remains of an beetle. Curious to know whether the
gem is genuine or not, the student takes the sample to the laboratory and
determines the concentration of Carbon-14 (A = 5730 years). After extracting a
piece of the trapped beetle with a fine drill, instrument analysis reported that
the concentration of Carbon-14 is now only 94%. If there was 100% Carbon-14
when the beetle was trapped, how old is the gem and is it genuine?
(Trivia: Amberification is a polymerization process that takes several millions of
years. The "youngest" amber is around 16 million years old and can be found in
the Dominican Republic).
23,000 years old (counterfeit)
O 51 million years old (genuine)
23 million years old (genuine)
O 510 years old (counterfeit)
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