Sentences with phrase «forms by the radioactive decay»

Tellingly, there was no sign of iron, an element that forms by radioactive decay only many days after a supernova.

This isotope forms by the radioactive decay of potassium 40, which is sequestered in the rocks deep in Titan's core.

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Members of a team led by paleoanthropologist Isaiah Nengo estimated the fossil's age by assessing radioactive forms of the element argon in surrounding rock, which decay at a known rate.

«Even if our formation wasn't triggered by a supernova, the presence of decay products of certain radioactive elements points to a supernova perhaps seeding the already formed young solar system with enriched elements.»

The clusters of lead atoms formed 1 billion years after crystallization of the zircon, by which time the radioactive decay of uranium had formed the lead atoms that then diffused into clusters during reheating.

Part of this heat is generated by the natural decay of radioactive element in the rocks, and part of the heat is left over from the formation of the Earth five billion years ago — when gravity pulled together bits of gas and dust to form our planet.