(a) Repeat Exercise 31.57 but include the 0.0055% natural abundance of 234 U with its 2.45 x...

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(a) Repeat Exercise 31.57 but include the 0.0055% natural abundance of 234U with its 2.45 x 105 y half-life.

(b) What is unreasonable about this result?

(c) What assumption is responsible?

(d) Where does the 234U come from if it is not primordial?

Data from Exercise 31.57

Natural uranium is 0.7200% 235U and 99.27% 238U. What were the percentages of 235U and 238U in natural uranium when Earth formed 4.5 x 109 years ago?

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