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What is the difference between radioactive decay and radiometric decay?
It is the difference between sand running out of an hour glass and determining what time it is by how much sand is left. Radioactive decay happens at a steady rate. If you can determine how much of that radioactive isotope ought to have been in a sample at the start and you can measure how much is left, you can tell how much time has passed.
What happens during radioactive dating?
Radioactive dating is carried out with substances which were formed at some unknown point in the past and contained a known proportion of a radioactive isotope of some element. Radioisotopes decay into other elements at a fixed and known rate. So, if you know how much of the radioactive isotope is still left in the sample, then you can work out how long it would have taken for the rest to have decayed into other elements. That gives the age of the sample.
What happens to a radioactive material over time?
It disintegrates into its daughter nuclei that are much more stabler than the radioactive nuclei. If a sample of radioacictive material is left it will decay into another element over a period of time. Note that complete decay is not possible. A fraction of the original radioactive material will always remain in the sample.
How much of an 800-gram sample of potassium-40 will remain after 3.9109 years of radioactive decay?
100 grams
How much energy is released if a sample 0.025 kg mass through radioactive decay?
2.25 times 10 to the 15
How much energy is released is a sample loses 0.05 kg mass through radioactive decay?
4.5 × 1015 J
What is the difference between radioactive decay and radiometric dating?
It is the difference between sand running out of an hour glass and determining what time it is by how much sand is left. Radioactive decay happens at a steady rate. If you can determine how much of that radioactive isotope ought to have been in a sample at the start and you can measure how much is left, you can tell how much time has passed.
How much energy is released if a sample loses 0.025 kg mass through radioactive energy?
2.25 x 10 15j
How much of an 800-gram sample of potassium-40 will remain after 3.9 X 109 years of radioactive decay?
100 grams
How much energy is released of a sample is 0.0001 Kg of its mass through radioactive decay?
9 x 10^12 J
How much of a 100-g sample of thorium-234 will be unchanged after 48.2 days?
25 gExplanation:Think about what a nuclear half-liferepresents, i.e. the time needed for an initial sample of a radioactive substance to be halved.
How much of an 80-milligram sample of Iodine-131 would be left after 32 days?
After 32 days, approximately 5 milligrams of the 80-milligram sample of Iodine-131 would be left. Iodine-131 has a half-life of about 8 days, so after each 8-day period, half of the remaining sample will decay.
