\n Radioactive Carbon-14 has a half-life of approximately 5730 years. It collects in living plants and plant-eating organisms and will start to decay once the organism dies.\n <\/p>\n
\n Assume an animal bone is discovered in an archeological dig and is Carbon-14 dated to be roughly 7,000\u00a0years old.\n <\/p>\n
\n What fraction of the initial amount of Carbon-14 is remaining?\n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Radioactive Carbon-14 has a half-life of approximately 5730 years. It collects in living plants and plant-eating organisms and will start to decay once the organism dies. Assume an animal bone is discovered in an archeological dig and is Carbon-14 dated to be roughly 7,000\u00a0years old. What fraction of the initial amount of Carbon-14 is remaining?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_joinchat":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qualityassignments.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}