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Ionium Age Determination, Leon Johnson
Ionium Age Determination, Leon Johnson
Honors Theses
Natural radioactive decay provides a means of determining the age of geological specimens. It is found that the number of atoms of a radioactive isotope disintegrating per unit time is linearly proportional to the existing number of atoms and independent of exterior parameters.