Question

Select all the correct answers.

Answer 1

There should be a sufficient amount of the selected isotope in the rock.

The half-life of the isotope must be long enough to capture the age of the rock.

Explanation:

Sully must consider two main aspect before selecting her choice isotope for dating.

There must be sufficient amount of the selected isotope in the rock.

The half - life of the isotope must be long enough to capture the age of the rock.

• Radiometric dating gives a rock an absolute numerical age.
• The half-life of an isotope is time take for half of a radioactive element to decay.
• If the half-life of an isotope is very short, all the parent nuclide would have turned to daughter nuclides.
• Also, we must have sufficient amount of both the daughter and parent isotope in the selected rock.

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