(a) What fraction of the 238U atoms present at the formation of the Earth still exist? Take...

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(a) What fraction of the 238U atoms present at the formation of the Earth still exist? Take the age of the Earth to be 4.5 × 109 yr.
(b) Answer the same question for 235U. Could this explain why there are more than 100 times as many 238U atoms as 235U atoms in the Earth today?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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