A skull was found and was estimated at 65 million years ago.Although the skull itself was found in a layer of rock that suggests that it is very old and initial carbon-14 dating of the surface revealed a much younger age approx. 8300 years ago suggesting that dinasours roamed th earth when humans did.
A. What is the half-life of carbon-14? How is this radioisotope different than carbon-12?
B. Carbon-14 a beat emitter forms from the bombardment of nitrogen-14 with a neutron. What is the balanced nuclear equation for the formation and decay of Carbon-14?
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2007-05-30 05:27:12 · 1 answers · asked by MEB 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
B) 14/7 N + 1/0 n -> 14/6 C + 1/1 H
14/6 C -> 14/7 N + 0/-1 e
Data required for A.
2007-05-30 05:34:58 · answer #1 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋