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An ancient wooden club is found that contains 280g of carbon andhas an activity of 7.3 decays per second.

Determine its age assuming that in living trees the ratio of14C/12C atoms is about 1.3

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Since decay is exponential NNo et tau N current number of C14 atoms in the sample No initial number of C14 atoms in the sample tau mean lifetime of C14 atom t age of the sample lnNNo t tau t tau x lnNNo Now we have the formula Lets    See Answer
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