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The half life of Carbon 14 is about 5730 years.
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What does the half life of a radioisotope represent?
It tells what fraction of a radioactive sample remains after a certain length of time.
What are the properties of radioactive particles?
Radioactive materials have unstable nuclei. That's what makes them what they are. The nucleus of a radionuclide will eventually decay. The time that must pass before this happens, and the manner in which the decay will take place vary from one radioisotope to another. As regards the length of time to decay, we cannot know for a given atom of a radionuclide just when it will decay. Certainly we can (and do) find what is called a half-life for each radioisotope. This is a statistically arrived at "average" for the length of time it will take for a given radioisotope to "lose" half its mass to decay. While we can't know when a given atom of something will decay, we can find, and with a great deal of accuracy, the length of time it will take for half of a large number of atoms of a given radionuclide to decay. When it comes to modes of radioactive decay, there are several, and each radioisotope has one of the modes as its own (though there are a few radionuclides that have a couple of different possible decay schemes). The decay schemes are spontaneous fission, alpha decay, beta decay (several kinds), proton emission, double proton emission, neutron emission, and cluster decay. This short post hits the nail on the head. More information is certainly out there, and Wikipedia has some good stuff posted. You'll find a link below to material that is on point.
Order gamma decay beta decay and alpha deacy form weakest to strongest?
gamma decay beta decay alpha decay
What is relative decay?
I believe relative decay is the decay over time.
What does the half-life of a radioisotope refer to?
The length of time it takes for half of a radioactive sample to decay
What does the half life of a radioisotope correspond to?
The length of time required for half of a sample of radioactive material to decay
What is the name for the length of time of a decay process?
Half-Life
Is it true that The length of time required for half of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay is its period?
It's period of half of decay.
What happens to the amount of nitrogen14 as the carbon14 decays?
Remains the same
How does the length of the half-life of the element correspond to the radioactivity of the element?
The length of time required for half of a sample of radioactive material to decay
What does the half life of a radioisotope represent?
It tells what fraction of a radioactive sample remains after a certain length of time.
An artifact is found that some are claiming is 30000 years old 3.1 percent of the original carbon14 is present The halflife of carbon14 is 5730 year?
Yes, but the dating is only off a little (500 years or so).
What Limitations are there of using carbon14 to date rocks?
The main limitations of using Carbon14 dating to find the age of something that is carbon base are firstly the possibility that carbon may be absorbed by some things making it more difficult to get an absolutely accurate age and secondly, with Carbon14 only having a half life of 5,568 years the maximum theoretical limit for detection is 100,000 years.
Length of time required for half of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay is its?
This is its half-life.
What is the mass number of carbon14?
Carbon is a non metallic element. Mass number of it is 12.
What do scientists use to determine a fossil's relative age?
Carbon14 dating (isotopic dating)
What percent of carbon14 is left after 5 half-lives?
3.125% would be left over.
