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The term half life describes the time taken for half of a total amount of radioactive isotopes to decay. However that doesn't mean that they all take exactly that length of time. Some will decay much more quickly than that and some more slowly.
As such even though the half life is longer than the age of the earth, some of the
Rubidum 87 isotopes will have decayed. Based on the proportion of rubidum 87 to the daughter isotopes you can still use this for dating materials younger than the half life of rubidum 87.
What else can I help you with?
Is the Earth older than the Sun?
No, the Sun is older than the Earth.
Why is the moon older then Earth?
The earth is not younger than the moon
Are you older than the earth?
no you stupid women
What resources are older than Earth?
The materials that formed the Earth are in fact OLDER than the Earth, because they were around BEFORE the Earth was formed. The Elements that you are made of were formed inside STARS before the Earth ever existed.
How old is earth scientifically?
Earth is older than 3.8 billion years.
How old is the meteorite in Allende Mexico?
It is estimated to be 4,567 billion years old; older than Earth and much older than the oldest rock found on Earth.
Is earth older than sun?
No, but pizza taste good
How much older is older mercury that earth?
Mercury is believed to have formed around the same time as Earth, approximately 4.5 billion years ago, during the early stages of our solar system's formation. Therefore, Mercury is not significantly older than Earth.
Why do people say millions of years ago if were in the thousands?
The answer depends on what were in the thousands. In any case, human civilisations are older than the Western calendar, human beings are older than human civilisation, the earth is older than human beings, the solar system is older than the earth and so on. The universe is estimated as being over 14 billion years old.
What type of objects would you do carbon dating on?
On an object with unknown age but more than halflife of C
Why are you older on mercury?
Because relative to Earth, on Mercury time itself passes slower because of the stronger gravitational field of the Sun experienced by Mercury (it is closer to the Sun than the Earth). Thus measured from the Earth you would appear older than you are biologically.
Is the moon older then the sun or earth?
None. Both the sun AND earth are older than the moon. No. It appears that the Moon is slightly younger than the Earth. Current theory for its creation is that an object, a protoplanet about the size of Mars called Theia, struck the Earth during its early formation, ejecting matter that consolidated into the Moon. The Sun is older than both the Earth and Moon, but only by a small amount.
