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Potassium-argon dating applications

Dalrymple, G. V., and M. A. Lanphere. 1969. Potassium-Argon Dating Principles, Techniques and Applications to Geochronology. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, xiv + 258 pp. [Pg.264]

Other applications of these elements take advantage of their nuclear properties. For example, one prevalent method of establishing the age of early humanoids is the potassium-argon dating procedure developed in the 1950s. Potassium-40 has a half-life of 1.3 billion years and decays by either beta-minus or beta-plus emission, as shown in Equations (12.22) and (12.23) ... [Pg.343]

Other practical applications of the alkali metals and their compounds include sodium and potassium in living systems, lithium as treatment for bipolar disorder (manic depression), elemental sodium and lithium as reducing agents, lithium in a new generation of batteries, cesium in photoelectric devices, potassium-argon dating, and lithium as a source of tritium to fuel the hydrogen economy. [Pg.347]

No radioactive isotopes of argon have any practical application. One non-radioactive isotope is used, however, to find the age of very old rocks. This method of dating rocks is described in the potassium entry. [Pg.28]

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