New Isotopes Can Be Produced Through the Process of Nuclear Transmutation

The activity of a 0.126-g sample of carbon taken from a piece of linen cloth from an archeological dig was measured to be 1.87 X 10 Bq. Estimate the age of the 

Strategy Find the activity of a 1-g sample of carbon and use Equation 17.6 to 

Practice Exercise Estimate the age of a rock for which the Pb to 9 U mass ratio is 0.390. What assumptions do you have to make to perform this ealeulation  

New Isotopes Can Be Produced Through the Process of Nuclear Transmutation 

The scope of nuclear chemistry would be rather narrow if it were limited to natural radioactive elements. An experiment performed by Rutherford in 1919, however, suggested the possibility of producing radioactivity artificially. He bombarded a sample of nitrogen-14 with a particles yielding oxygen-17 and protons  

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