Radioactive Carbon Dating

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• Why does carbon 14 undergo radioactive decay?
• How can half-life be described in terms of radioactive decay?
• What are some examples of radioisotopes?
• What are radioisotopes?
• What is half-life?
• What is radioactive carbon dating?
• How can carbon 14 be used in biology?
• How can carbon 14 be used to date organic material?
• How carbon 14 dating is done?
• How does carbon 14 decay?
• How is carbon 14 formed in the atmosphere?
• How is carbon-14 used in radiocarbon dating?
• How do you calculate half life of carbon 14?
• How does an atom of carbon-14 differ from an atom of carbon-12?
• How does carbon 12 change to carbon 14?
• How does radioactive dating work?
• How do scientists tell a fossil's age?
• What is an example of the half-life of an isotope and describe the amount remaining and the time elapsed after five half-periods.?
• What are the stable isotopes of nitrogen?
• What are two radioactive isotopes of oxygen?
• What is the difference between carbon-12 and carbon-14?
• What happens in the process of radioactive decay?
• Which of the following is a naturally occurring radioactive element?
• What are three benefits of radioactivity?
• What are the pros and cons of radioactive dating?
• What does potassium-40 turn into after experiencing radioactive decay?
• What is the difference between carbon-13 and carbon-14?
• What is a stable isotope for carbon?
• How are isotopes used in biological research?
• How can carbon-14 be converted to carbon-12?
• What is radioactive disintegration?
• What type of radiometric dating do archeologists use to date an artifact that was once a living organism?
• What is the daughter element of carbon-14?
• What is a radioactive isotope?
• What instrument is used to measure radioactive decay?
• What is the nuclear equation for the decay of carbon-14?
• What advantage does radiometric dating have over relative dating?
• How is carbon dating used to determine the age of animal and plant fossils?
• In 1951, the Dead Sea Scrolls were dated using carbon-14 dating. They were found to still contain 30% of their original carbon 14. If the half life of carbon 14 is 5,730 years, how old were the scrolls?
• Given the following information, the older the object the less accurate this method of dating becomes. How can scientists say that the Earth is billions years old?
• What is the age limit for using radioactive carbon dating?
• The half-life for the radioactive decay of C-14 is 5730 years.How long will it take for 30% of the C-14 atoms in a sample of C-14 to decay?
• Why can't the C-14 method be used to confirm the age of a silver goblet from the 1500s?
• The age of an ancient tree trunk is estimated using radiocarbon dating. If the trunk has a C-14 decay rate that is 34% of what it is in living plants, how old is the trunk?
• How are C-14 and U-238 dating used together in order to determine fossil ages?
• How long does it take for 25% of the C-14 atoms in a sample of C-14 to decay? If a sample of C-14 initially contains 1.5 millimol of C-14, how many millimoles are left after 2255 years?
• A sample of wood is found to contain 1/8 as much C-14 as is present in the wood of a living tree. What is the approximate age, in years, of this sample of wood?
• Why doesn't Carbon-12 decay as Carbon-14 does after an organism dies?
• How do archaeologists use c-14-1?
• What is the half-life of carbon-14? How is this radioisotope different than carbon-12? the half life is 5,700 yrs, right? i just don't know the answer to the 2nd part..?
• The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years. What percentage of carbon-14 remains in a sample after 12 half lives?
• Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5700 years. The charcoal from a tree killed in the volcanic eruption that formed Crater Lake in Oregon contained 59.5% of the carbon-14 found in living matter. What is the approximate the age of Crater Lake?
• The Half-Life of Carbon-14 is 5,730 years, which decays to Argon-40. If you start with 200 grams of Carbon-14, how many grams of Carbon-14 will you have in 5,730 years?
• If the half life is 5700 years, how do you find the percentage of original carbon-14 that remains in a sample after 2476 years have passed?
• The half life of Carbon-14 is 5730 years, how many years would it take for 7/8 of the original amount to decay?
• The bones of a prehistoric man found in the desert of new Mexico contain approximately 5% of the original amount of carbon 14. If the half-life of carbon 14 is 5600 years, approximately how long ago did the man die?
• Carbon-14 is a radioactive isotope with a half-life of 5,730 years. How much carbon-14 would remain in a sample that is 11,460 years old?
• Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5730 years. How much of a 144 g sample of carbon-14 will remain after 1719 years?
• Half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years. A piece of wood that contained 0.200g of Carbon-14 when it was alive now contains 0.0125g of Carbon-14. How old is the piece of wood? 5730 years old 11460 years old 17190 years old 22920 years old?
• How can the half life of carbon 14 be used by scientists?
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• The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years. Explain how to figure out the age of a substance that has 25% carbon-14 remaining?
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