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Nuclear Clocks
Henry Faul
55 pages~1 hr 5 min read36 chapters$4.99
How do we know a rock is a billion years old? Henry Faul explains the radioactive clocks hidden inside matter: carbon-14 for the recent past, rubidium and uranium for the deep. Clear and compact, it shows how atoms keep time. The science that dated the earth itself. Read the clocks buried in stone and bone.
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Inside this book
36 chapters
- 1Nuclear Clocks
- 2INTRODUCTION
- 3THEORY OF NUCLEAR AGE DETERMINATION
- 4THE CARBON-14 CLOCK
- 5Carbon-14 Counting
- 6Carbon-14 Results
- 7OBJECTS DATED BY RADIOCARBON
- 8THE LONG-LIVED CLOCKS
- 9The Rubidium-Strontium Clock
- 10The Uranium Fission Clock
- 11Plumbology
- 12THE AGE OF THE EARTH
- 13Analytical Techniques
- 14Isotope Dilution
- 15Mass Spectrometry
- 16Minerals That Can Be Dated
- 17Potash Feldspar
- 18Mica
+ 18 more. The full contents open with the book.
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