If you start with an element with 1,000,000 parent atoms, how many parents and how many daughters

will there be after 6 half-lives? What will be an ideal response?


0: P=1,000,000, D=0; 1: P=500,000, D=500,000; 2: P=250,000, D=750,000; 3: P=125,000,
D=875,000; 4: P=62,5000, D=937,500; 5: P=31,250; D=968,750; 6: P=15,625, D=984,315.

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Thick salt deposits have been explained by evaporation in silled (also called “barrier”) basins

a. True b. False

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Vertical mixing of air tends to ____________________ the environmental lapse rate

Fill in the blank with correct word.

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