JEE Advanced 2006
- Exam
- JEE Advanced
- Year
- 2006
- Subject
- Chemistry
- Chapter
- Chemical Kinetics
JEE Advanced 2006 · Chemistry · Chemical Kinetics
Paragraph: Carbon-14 is used to determine the age of organic...
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Carbon-14 is used to determine the age of organic material. The procedure is based on the formation of by neutron capture in the upper atmosphere.
{ }_7^{14} \mathrm{~N}+{ }_0^1 n \longrightarrow{ }_6^{14} \mathrm{C}+{ }_1 n¹
is absorbed by living organisms during photosynthesis. The content is constant in living organism once the plant or animal dies, the uptake of carbon dioxide by it ceases and the level of in the dead being, falls to the decay which undergoes.
{ }_6^{14} \mathrm{C} \longrightarrow{ }_7^{14} The half life period of is 5770 years. The decay constant can be calculated by using the following formula .
The comparison of the activity of the dead matter with that of the carbon still in circulation enables measurement of the period of the isolation of the material from the living cycle. The method however, ceases to be accurate over periods longer than 30,000 years. The proportion of to in living matter is .Question:
A nuclear explosion has taken place leading to increase in concentration of in nearby areas. concentration is in nearby areas and in areas far away. If the age of the fossil is determined to be and at the places respectively then
Options
- AThe age of the fossil will increase at the place where explosion has taken and
- BThe age of the fossil will decrease at the place where explosion has taken place and
- CThe age of fossil will be determined to be same
- D
Correct answer
A. The age of the fossil will increase at the place where explosion has taken and
Step-by-step solution
All radioactive decays are the examples of first order kinetics.
So, decay constant
is the concentration at time
is the concentration at time
So,