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Is it true to say that radioactive istopes in clastic sedimentary rocks always predict an age that is younger than the sedimentary rock?
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∙ 14y ago
That would not be true due to the fact that sedimentary clastic rock is composed of particles of pre-existing rock.
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How is tossing a coin similar to radioactive decay of an element?
If you toss a coin, there are fifty percent chances of getting the head or tail. In the radioactive decay also fifty percent atoms will brake down. When you toss the coin next time, you have 25 percent chances of getting the head or tail repeated. Same is the case with radioactive material. you will be left with 25 percent of the radioactive material after half life. Third time the chances of getting the same head or tail is 12.5 percent. Here you are left with 12.5 percent of the radioactive material left with after another half life.
Over time what will happend to the radioactive atom?
They experience radioactive decay. They emit radiation, changing the state of their nucleus, usually by the loss of protons and neutrons. However, this process is completely random; it can only be predicted as a half-life, or the amount of time it takes half of a certain material to decay. This does not predict when an individual atom will decay, it only predicts when approximately half of the material will have decayed.
Why is Radioactive decay is said to be random?
The underlying truth in radioactive decay is that on an individual basis, no unstable atom will have a predictable time until it will decay. We understand and characterize the decay of radionuclides on the basis of statistical analysis. Only by looking at a large number of atoms of a given isotope of a given element and counting the decay events over time can we quantify the decay rate. The term half-life is used to state (based on the statistics) when half of a given quantity of a substance will have undergone radioactive decay. Note that atoms are incredibly tiny things, and even if we have very tiny quantities of a given radioactive material, we'll have huge numbers of atoms of that material in the sample. The larger the number of atoms of material and the longer we count the decay events, the more accurate our half-life value will be. Having said all that, no one can predict when a given atom of any radionuclide will decay. Each is different, and that is the basis for the random nature of nuclear or radioactive decay.
How did Mendeleev predict the properties of silicon?
Mendeleev did not predict the properties of silicon.
Can meteorologists predict volcanoes?
The fact of whether or not geologists can measure or predict a valcano is silly each valcano is different and it is of nature thus there is not way to predict what it will do and when it will do it.
Predict two properties of technetium?
Technetium is a metal.Technetium is radioactive.
What is a radioactive gas used to predict earthquake's?
Radon (Rn)
Astatine a radioactive member of the halogen family forms a compound with hydrogen Predict its chemical formula?
The chemical formula of hydrogen astatide is HAt.
How is tossing a coin similar to radioactive decay of an element?
If you toss a coin, there are fifty percent chances of getting the head or tail. In the radioactive decay also fifty percent atoms will brake down. When you toss the coin next time, you have 25 percent chances of getting the head or tail repeated. Same is the case with radioactive material. you will be left with 25 percent of the radioactive material after half life. Third time the chances of getting the same head or tail is 12.5 percent. Here you are left with 12.5 percent of the radioactive material left with after another half life.
Over time what will happend to the radioactive atom?
They experience radioactive decay. They emit radiation, changing the state of their nucleus, usually by the loss of protons and neutrons. However, this process is completely random; it can only be predicted as a half-life, or the amount of time it takes half of a certain material to decay. This does not predict when an individual atom will decay, it only predicts when approximately half of the material will have decayed.
What are sentences that has predict in it?
You can not predict the future. What you predict Is wrong.
What do you mean by radio active half life?
In any radioactive substance, individual atoms will decay randomly. There is no way to know exactly when any particular atom will decay. On average and in broad terms, however, we can predict how many atoms will decay in any given period of time, and this time varies with the isotope involved. The "half-life" of a radioactive substance is the time that it will take for half of the atoms to decay. Very radioactive isotopes will decay quickly and will have very short half-lives; slightly radioactive isotopes will decay slowly and have long half-lives.
What is a sentence with the word predict?
We predict there will be rain later.The computer will help predict the path of the hurricane.The psychic could not predict that his show would be postponed.
How do you write a sentence using the word predict?
"I predict, that, this is proper use of the word predict"
Can you predict a flood?
Yes, you can predict a flood
When was I Predict created?
I Predict was created in 1982.
What sentence can be use with the word predict?
A meteorologist's job is to predict the weather. Can a psychic predict the future?
