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> Shouldn't we be able to determine the age of the spill using the cesium half life? How? If you don’t know the size of the original spill can you work it out
by lostlogin 3y ago
> Shouldn't we be able to determine the age of the spill using the cesium half life?
How? If you don’t know the size of the original spill can you work it out from whatever it decays to?
- jenadine 3y agoNot a physicist, so you'll correct me if I'm wrong. The Cesium decay into something. So we could measure the concentration of the resulting atom compared to those of Cesium.