1. In the nuclear transmutation represented by 23994Pu(42He,10n)?, what is the product?
uranium-242
uranium-243
curium-245
uranium-245
curium-242
2. The cloth shroud from around a mummy is found to have a 14C activity of 8.8 disintegrations per minute per gram of carbon as compared with living organisms that undergo 15.2 disintegrations per minute per gram of carbon.
From the half-life for 14C decay, 5715 yr, calculate the age of the shroud