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

Question #146479
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.
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2020-11-25T02:21:04-0500

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


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