The radioactive isotope carbon-14 is used as a tracer in

Chapter 5, Problem 28

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The radioactive isotope carbon-14 is used as a tracer in medical and biological research. Compute the half-life of carbon-14 given that the decay constant k is 1.2097 104 . (The units for k here are such that your half-life answer will be in years.)

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