What is the age bp of the clovissite


A small sample of wood from an archeological site in Clovis,New Mexico, was burned in O2, and the CO2produced was bubbled through a solution of Ba(OH)2 toproduce a precipitate of BaCO3. When theBaCO3 was collected by filtration, a 1.000g samplewas found to have a radioactivity of 4.0 x 10-3Bq. The half-life of 14C is 5730 years, and livingorganisms have a radioactivity due to 14C of 15.3disintegrations/min per gram of carbon. Assuming that the analysis was carried out in 1960, what is the age BP of the Clovissite?

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