A Scotch-Drinking Physicist Suspects That the 50-Year-Old Scotch S/he Purchased

question 39

Multiple Choice

A Scotch-drinking physicist suspects that the 50-year-old Scotch s/he purchased was misrepresented.Reasoning that water must contain tritium because this isotope is produced in the atmosphere by cosmic rays,s/he uses the ³H concentration in the Scotch to determine when it was bottled.S/he finds that the ³H concentration in the Scotch was 64% that of the ³H concentration in the water on the Isle of Islay,where the Scotch was bottled.Approximately how old is this "50-year-old" Scotch? (The half-life of tritium is 12.3 years.)

• A)6 years
• B)8 years
• C)12 years
• D)24 years
• E)It really was 50 years old.

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Recognize the roles of the central and peripheral nervous systems.

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Definitions:

Herfindahl-Hirschman Index

The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) is a measure of market concentration used to determine the level of competition within an industry, calculated by squaring the market share of each firm competing in the market and summing the resulting numbers.

Market Share

The share of the market held by a certain company or product.

Collusion

An agreement between firms to limit competition and manipulate markets in their favor, often in ways that are illegal or unethical.

Monopolist

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