Answer to Question #146479 in General Chemistry for Jamie Delos Santos

Question

The so-called Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew manuscripts of the old Testament, were discovered in 1947. The activity of carbon-14 in the linen wrappings of the book of Isaiah is about 11.0 dpm/g-C. Estimate the age of the scroll when it was discovered.

Answer 1

λ = 0.693/t (1/2) therefore age is 2200 years