Nuclear Clocks
by Henry Faul
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About this eBook
- Author
- Faul, Henry, 1920-1981
- Title
- Nuclear Clocks Revised
- Credits
- Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QC: Science: Physics
- Subject
- Radioactive dating
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 49070
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49070
- Release Date
- May 29, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Nuclear Clocks
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.INTRODUCTION
- 4.THEORY OF NUCLEAR AGE DETERMINATION
- 5.THE CARBON-14 CLOCK — Carbon-14 Counting — Carbon-14 Results — OBJECTS DATED BY RADIOCARBON
- 6.THE LONG-LIVED CLOCKS — The Rubidium-Strontium Clock — The Uranium Fission Clock — Plumbology
- 7.THE AGE OF THE EARTH — Analytical Techniques — Isotope Dilution — Mass Spectrometry — Minerals That Can Be Dated — Potash Feldspar — Mica — Low-Strontium Feldspar — Zircon — Hornblende — Sanidine — Whole Rocks
- 8.SOME INTERESTING RESULTS — The Old Man from Olduvai — The Geologic Time Scale — Precambrian Stratigraphy
- 9.AND WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
- 10.GLOSSARY
- 11.APPENDIX Radioactive Decay
- 12.SUGGESTED REFERENCES — Books — Articles — PHOTO CREDITS
- 13.Footnotes
- 14.Transcriber’s Notes
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