Hyp/o Means Above Normal

question 32

True/False

Hyp/o means above normal.

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Definitions:

Carbon Dating

A method used to determine the age of an artifact or remains by measuring the amount of carbon-14 present, which decays over time.

Radiometric Dating

A method for determining the age of an object based on the decay rate of radioactive isotopes contained within it.

Half-Life

The time required for half the quantity of a radioactive substance to undergo decay or for a drug's concentration in the body to be reduced by half.

Isotope

Variants of a particular chemical element that differ in neutron number, and therefore in mass, but share the same chemical properties.