What Characteristic Is Important in Using Radioisotope Dating for Very

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Multiple Choice

What characteristic is important in using radioisotope dating for very old items, such as rocks suspected to be over 100,000,000 years old?

• A)The radioisotope cannot be soluble in water.
• B)The radioisotope must give off light for easy measurement.
• C)The radioisotope in question must decay to another radioisotope.
• D)The radioisotope should have a very long half-life.

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