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ConcepTest: Isotopic Dating with Parent to Daughter Ratios

The half-life of a radioactive isotope is 500 million years. Scientists testing a rock sample discover that the sample contains three times as many daughter isotopes as parent isotopes. What is the age of the rock? ...

Keywords:: Lecture, Chemistry, ConcepTests, Geoscience, NSDL, Radioisotopes, Education, Historical Geology, Physics

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Material Type:: Assessment Tool
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Author:: Unknown (Know the author?)
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division
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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States