Sentences with phrase «how radioactive decay»
The reading level is right for my students, and the article offers an interesting example of how radioactive decay can be used to help date artifacts.
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Wu was the first to verify — and later refine — Enrico Fermi's theory of radioactive beta - decay, which describes how some unstable atoms emit radiation when transforming into more stable atoms.
No known process can explain how they could mess around with radioactive decay rates.
Many researchers had gauged how long Mars took to form using the steady decay of radioactive hafnium - 182 to tungsten - 182, but the answers were all over the place.
Part of the EXO - 200 underground detector used to search for a hypothesized radioactive decay that could reveal how neutrinos acquire their incredibly small mass.
This process explains how particles can escape atomic nuclei, causing radioactive alpha decay.
G. Brent Dalrymple's classic debunking of the young - earth «scientific» creationism's dating methods with a short explanation of how geologists know the age Radiometric dating measures the decay of radioactive atoms to determine the age of a rock sample.
Title: Radioactive Dating Game Activity Learning Target: How is radioactive decay used to determine the age of objects?
But how do scientists Archaeologists use the exponential, radioactive decay of carbon 14 to estimate the death dates of organic material.
For first order decays (think simple radioactive decay) where the rate constant k does not change over time the rate of change of x with respect to time, dx / dt, in other words how fast it decays,
What is not clear, however, is how much of this heat is primordial — left over from the formation of the Earth — and how much is generated by radioactive decay.»
We should study all aspects of climate, including the most important source of energy into our world climate system (the only other being radioactive decay heat, I believe) a little longer before we make simplifying assumptions that lead us to stupid answers (such as CO2 is the only thing that affects world climate — which is effectively what the IPCC and green lobby asserts today regardless of how much they weasel word it if pressed.)