What is the age of the artifact?

Q: A wooden artifact is burned and found to contain 21g of carbon. The 14 C activity of the sample is…

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Q: A 241 mg sample of carbon from a piece of cloth excavated from an ancient tomb in Nubia undergoes…

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Q: A sample of wood from an Egyptian mummy case has a specific activity of 9.41 d/min-g. How old is the…

A: Solution: We know that --- for a sample of wood from an Egyptian mummy which is related to…

Q: The carbon-14 activity in papyrus growing along the Nile River today is 231 decay events per…

A: Given data,Initial activity of C-14=231 decay events/KgFinal activity of C-14=140 decay…

Q: A wooden artifact is burned and found to contain 21 g of carbon. The 14C activity of the sample is…

A: Radio carbon dating is a technique used to determine the age of the wooden artefact or…

Q: An old piece of wood has a carbon-14 content of 0.0156 times that 14 is the age of the old wood if…

A: We will use first order kinetics formula

Q: a wooden object from the site of an ancient temple has a carbon-14 activity of 10 counts/min…

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Q: What radionuclide technique can be used to estimate the age of fossils up to 50,000 years old?

A: Radionuclide: It is also known as Radioactive nuclide, radioactive isotopes. These are the atoms…

Q: A piece of literature has announced that Uranium 238( 23822U) has a binding energy of approximately…

A: We can theoretically calculate the mass of a neutron. But this will be different from the…

Q: Calculate the half-life of a radioisotope if it takes 72 years for a sample to decay to 12.5% of its…

A: 100 % to 50 % one t1/2. 50 % to 25 %  second t1/2. 25% to 12.5 third t1/2. three t1/2 = 72 years.…

Q: Magnesium-27 is an unstable radioisotope. For it to become stable, it has to undergo

A: Mg has 27 mass no. and 12 atomic number. Hence, it has 12 protons and 27-12 = 15 no. of neutrons.…

Q: Since the radioactivity of 233UF6 with a mass of 0.420 g is 9.88 * 104 Bq, find the half-life for…

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Q: A wooden artifact is found in an ancient tomb. Its carbon-14   activity is measured to be 61.0% of…

A: Activity of carbon-14 = 0.61 R/Ro = 0.61 We will use the below equation for decay process- R=…

Q: 3. The half-life of radon is 3.82 days. What fraction of a freshly separated sample of this nuclide…

A: The half-life of a radioactive isotope (t1/2 ): All radioactive decay first-order reaction kinetics.…

Q: If 29.5% of the original amount of 14C is present in a wooden tool at the time of analysis, what is…

A: Since the carbon decay is a first order kinetics reaction Hence for the first order reaction we can…

Q: A wooden statue found in Egypt has a carbon-14 content that is three-fifths of that found in living…

A: Given: A wooden statue found in Egypt has a carbon-14 content that is three-fifths of that found in…

Q: 1.) A researcher claims that an ancient scroll originated from Greek scholars in about 500 B.C. Its…

A: “Since you have asked multiple question, we will solve the first question for you. If youwant any…

Q: A wooden artifact from an Indian temple has a 14C activity of 42 counts per minute as compared with…

A: The question is based on concept of radioactive decay. we have to calculate the age of the wooden…

Q: A wooden artifact is burned and found to contain 21 g of carbon. The 14C activity of the sample is…

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Q: Calculate the half-life of a radioisotope if it takes 144 years for a sample to decay to 12.5% of…

A: N = 0.125 No N/No = 0.125

Q: 2. The radioactive potassium-40 isotope decays to argon-40 with a half-life of. a. Write a balanced…

A: t1/2 = 1.2 x 109 year Initial Mass of K = 100 g Remaining Mass = 18 g

Q: Some mammoth bones found in Arizona were found by carbon-14 dating to be 1.13x104 years old. What…

A: Given: Original activity = 15.3 disintegrations per minute per gram. Age of bones = 1.13 × 104…

Q: The half-life of oxygen-15 is 124 ss. If a sample of oxygen-15 has an activity of 4800 BqBq, how…

A: Half-life of a reaction is the time at which the initial concentration of the reactant becomes half.…

Q: 14.25 A wooden artifact is burned and found to contain 21 g of carbon. The ¹4C activity of the…

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Q: A sample of a wooden artifact gives 5.0 disintegrations/min/g carbon. The half-life of C-14 is 5730…

A: Half life is defined as the time taken by a radioactive sample to decay to half of its original…

Q: A wooden artifact is burned and found to contain 21g of carbon. the 14c activity of the sample is…

A: The half-life of a reaction is the time taken for the reactant to reduce to half its initial value…

Q: 2 mol of beryllium-8 nuclei combines to form 1 mol of oxygen-16. The mass decrease is 0.0157 g.…

A: E = ∆m x c2 Where, E = energy in J; ∆m = mass decrease in kg and c = velocity of light

Q: . If the half-life of a radioisotope is 3

A: Half life (t1/2 or t50%) :  The time required to consume half of the initial reactant is called "…

Q: A radioactive source containing Y-90 has an initial activity of 20 µC a) How many decays per second…

A: The radioactive source containing Y-90 has an initial activity 20 μCi which equals…

Q: Bromine has a half-life of 36 hours. A sample containing Br-82 was found to have an activity of…

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Q: An unknown radioactive element decays into non-radioactive substances. In 340 days the radioactivity…

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Q: For the nuclear reaction 0.je + 110 48Cd 110 47Ag → Starting with 200. g of Ag-110 in a container,…

A: No of half lives in 756 days are 3. And mass left of reactant is 25 g

Q: The radioactive cobalt isotope, "Co, has an half-life of 63 months and undergoes decay. The m of Co…

A: From the data  A) We are calculating number of moles of cobalt after 5 years B) The activity of…

Q: 21. Half-Life The half-life of radium-226 is approximately 1620 years. a. How much of a sample…

A: Introduction: We know that this decay of radioactive elements is a type of first-order reaction. The…

Q: A wooden artifact is burned and found to contain 21 g of carbon. The 14C activity of the sample is…

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Q: A wooden artifact is burned and found to contain 21g of carbon. The ^14C activity of the sample is…

A: A freshly cut sample of a wood has the activity of 14C = 15 disintegrations per min per gram (fixed)

Q: an artifiact has a carbon-14 concentration that is 12.5%(1/8th) of that found in living organisms.…

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Q: Cobalt-60, which undergoes beta decay, has a half-life of 5.26 yr. What is the activity of the…

A: The activity of a radioactive sample is measures as `N_0` counts per minute at. The activity of a…

Q: rock containing 238U and 206Pb was examined to determine its approximate age. The molar ratio of…

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Q: After 103 days, only 2.3 g of a radioisotope remains from a sample that originally has 150 g of it.…

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Q: The cloth shroud from around a mummy is found to have a 14C activity of 8.3 disintegrations per…

A: Given, The initial decay rate of carbon of cloth = 8.3 dis/min. The decay rate of carbon for living…

Q: A wooden artifact from an ancient tomb contains 30 percent of the carbon -14 that is present in…

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Q: What is the approximate age of the artifact?

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Q: The activity of a particular radioactive nuclide falls from 1 × 1011 Bq to 2 × 1010 Bq in 10 hours.…

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Q: Calculate the percent activity of the radioactive isotope cobalt-60 remaining after three…

A: Here we are required to find the percent activity of radioactive isotope of cobalt 60 remaining…

Q: time for amount of initial radioactivity radionuclide to decrease to 1/16 of initial amount

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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.