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Ch.21 - Nuclear Chemistry

Chapter 21, Problem 43

Potassium-40 decays to argon-40 with a half-life of 1.27 * 109 yr. What is the age of a rock in which the mass ratio of 40Ar to 40K is 4.2?

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