An Ancient Rock Is Found to Contain ⁴⁰Ar Gas, Indicating

question 28

Multiple Choice

An ancient rock is found to contain ⁴⁰Ar gas, indicating that of the ⁴⁰K in the rock has decayed since the rock solidified. Any argon would have boiled out of liquid rock. The half-life of ⁴⁰K is 1.25 billion years. How long ago did the rock solidify?

• A) 2.6 billion years
• B) 0.50 billion years
• C) 1.8 billion years
• D) 0.30 billion years

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