Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago

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Goes over a worked example for calculating the activity of carbon-14 in a 1 gram sample of carbon. Activity is defined as the number of decays per second. It is abbreviated with the symbol A and has the metric unit the Becquerel (Bq). One Becquerel is equal to one decay per second.

This is one part of the problem for determine the age of a substance with carbon-14 dating

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