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 %3! 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) 23 million years old (genuine) 51 million years old (genuine) 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 %3! 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) 23 million years old (genuine) 51 million years old (genuine) 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
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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)
23 million years old (genuine)
51 million years old (genuine)
510 years old (counterfeit)
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