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Chapter 25, Problem 71IAE
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The age of the earth depending on the current natural abundances of U-238 and U-235 isotopes of Uranium needs to be determined, assuming initial abundance of both be equal.

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All radioactive reactions are first order thus the integrated rate law can be represented as follows:

ln[A]t[A]0=λt

Also, for first order reaction, the relation between half-life time and decay constant is as follows:

λ=0.6932t1/2

Here, t1/2 for the reaction in which the concentration of reactant becomes half of its initial value.

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