During a field trip you discover a skull belonging to a novel dinosaur species you named ORTechosaurus. It has a carbon-
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During a field trip you discover a skull belonging to a novel dinosaur species you named ORTechosaurus. It has a carbon-
During a field trip you discover a skull belonging to a novel dinosaur species you named ORTechosaurus. It has a carbon-14 decay rate of 4.50 disintegrations per gram per minute (4.50 dis/min.gC). If living organisms have a decay rate 18.6 dis/min.gC, how long ago did the ORTechosaurus exist? The t1/2 for Carbon -14 = 5,730 years
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