Potassium-40 (40K):

a. decays to carbon-14.
b. decays to the gas, argon-40 (40Ar).
c. has a full-life of 1.25 billion years.
d. is the same as carbon-14.
e. is destructive and therefore not used by paleoanthropologists.


b

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