Charcoal samples from Stonehenge in England were burned in

Chapter 2, Problem 87IE

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Charcoal samples from Stonehenge in England were burned in , and the resultant  gas bubbled into a solution of  (limewater), resulting in the precipitation of . The  was removed by filtration and dried. A  sample of the  had a radioactivity of  due to carbon-14. By comparison, living organisms undergo 15.3 disintegrations per minute per gram of carbon. Using the half-life of carbon-14, , calculate the age of the charcoal sample.

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