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The ratio of 40K to 40Ar was used to date moon rocks returned by the Apollo 11 flight. P...

The ratio of 40K to 40Ar was used to date moon rocks returned by the Apollo 11 flight. Potassium-40 decays to argon- 40 by positron emission with a half-life of 1.3 billion years. Assuming no 40Ar was present initially and that none escaped, how old is a rock that had a K-40 to Ar-40 ratio of 0.143?

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