A mammoth skeleton has a carbon-14 decay rate of 0.48 disintegrations per minute per gram of carbon (0.48 dis/min⋅gC), homework help
A mammoth skeleton has a carbon-14 decay rate of 0.48 disintegrations per minute per gram of carbon (0.48 dis/min⋅gC ).
When did the mammoth live? (Assume that living organisms have a carbon-14 decay rate of 15.3 dis/min⋅gC and that carbon-14 has a half-life of 5730 yr.)