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What types of elements are useful for dating materials?
Radioactive elements are used to date the age of rocks. Radioactive elements decay according to a known pattern. Scientists can use the elements of that pattern to determine when the rock with the original radioactive element was formed.
What must be true for radioactive dating to be possible with a certain sample?
The sample must contain radioactive elements.
Is the dating method of determining the dates of old objects by using radioactive elements?
Radiometric
What information is obtained from radioactive dating?
The age of an object that was once living.
Why do scientist use radioactive dating?
To figure out how old something is based how long it takes elements in the sample to decay.
What elements are used in radioactive dating?
don't know
What radioactive element is not commonly used in dating archaeological artefacts?
The most often used radioactive elements used in radiometric dating are carbon, potassium-argon and uranium-lead.Other elements are not, or very rarely used.
Scientists used radioactive decay to measure what?
amount if living organism that is expected to radioactive isotope.
What types of elements are useful for dating materials?
Radioactive elements are used to date the age of rocks. Radioactive elements decay according to a known pattern. Scientists can use the elements of that pattern to determine when the rock with the original radioactive element was formed.
Are all the radioactive elements found in the last group of the Periodic Table?
No, many other elements are radioactive or have radioactive isotopes. Examples of this are carbon 14, which is used in carbon dating, Radon, Krypton, Hydrogen, Iodine, and many others.
What must be true for radioactive dating to be possible with a certain sample?
The sample must contain radioactive elements.
What are those methods which are used for absolute dating?
Radioactivity. The use of radioactive elements like Uranium (U) and Thorium (Th).
What are those method which are used for absolute dating?
Radioactivity. The use of radioactive elements like Uranium (U) and Thorium (Th).
What is the process of abdsolut dating?
Absolute dating relies on radioactive decay of elements in a rock. When an igneous rock is formed it may contain elements that are a mixture.
What is the name of the carbon isotope used in radioactive dating of artifacts?
Carbon-14 is the isotope used in radioactive dating of artifacts of organic origin.
Is a geological dating method based on the decay rates of radioactive elements?
Radio metric dating.
Is the dating method of determining the dates of old objects by using radioactive elements?
Radiometric
