Question

Scientists estimate Earth's age to be 4.6 billion years. Samarium has a half-life of approximately 106 billion years. From the present date, approximately how many more years must pass before a sample of samarium that was created at the beginning of Earth's history contains 50 percent of the original parent material?

1 billion

10 billion

100 billion

1,000 billion

Answer 1

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