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Q.

A wooden piece of great antiquity weights 50 gm and shows C14 activity of 320 disintegrations per minute. Estimate the length of the time (in years) which has elapsed since this wood was part of a living tree, assuming that living plants show a C14 activity of 12 disintegrations per minute per gm. The half-life of C14 is 5730 yrs.  (Round-off to the nearest integer)

ln158/(ln2)=0.907

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answer is 5197.

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dNdtt=320Disintegration per minute
dNdtt=12×50=600 Disintegration per minute
(dn/dt)t(dn/dt)t=0=λNλN0=320600=815
eλt=815
t=(ln158)ln2×5730=5197years

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