Chemistry

Viviana Carr

11 April, 07:29

Griffin was walking to school one day and found a old bone. He took it to a scientist friend of his, and after studying the bone, she determined it was approximately 24,000 years old. She also told him that the current amount of carbon-14 in the bone was 5,000 atoms. How many atoms must the bone have had originaly, assuming that the half-life of carbon-14 is approximately 6,000 years.

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