RADIOCARBON DATING Students will: understand the half-life of an isotope.

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RADIOCARBON DATING Students will: understand the half-life of an isotope.

Radiocarbon Dating:  Radiocarbon dating: process of determining the age of an object by measuring the amount of carbon-14 in the object.  Carbon dating measures the ratio of carbon-12 and carbon-14.  Stable carbon-12 and radioactive carbon-14 exist naturally.  When an organism dies, carbon-14 stops being created and slowly decays. Carbon dating only works for plant and animals that are less than years old.

Half-Life  Half-life:time required for half of the radioactive nuclei to decay. Example: Strontium-90 has a half-life of 29 years. If you have 10 g of strontium-90 today, there will be 5.0 g remaining in 29 years. (10.0 g x 0.5 =5.00g)

Decay Curves:  Decay curves: is a curved line that shows the rate at which radioisotopes decay.  The curve shows the relationship between half-life and percentage of original substance remaining.

Common Isotope Pairs:  There are many radioisotopes that can be used for dating.  Parent isotope = the original, radioactive material how old the object is  Daughter isotope = the stable (end) product of the radioactive decay (youngest isotope)  The rate of decay remains constant, but some elements require one step to decay while others decay over many steps before reaching a stable daughter isotope.

Common Isotope Pairs Carbon-14 decays into nitrogen-14 in one step. Uranium-235 decays into lead-207 in 15 steps. Thorium-235 decays into lead-208 in 10 steps.

Half Life% of parent isotope % of daughter isotope Half Life Fraction of parent isotope Fraction of daughter isotope

(c) McGraw Hill Ryerson 2007 The Potassium-40 Clock  Radioisotopes with very long half-lives can help determine the age of very old things.  The potassium-40/argon-40 clock has a half-life of 1.3 billion years.  Argon-40 produced by the decay of potassium-40 becomes trapped in rock.  Ratio of potassium-40 : argon-40 shows age of rock. See pages