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- From: dblackbu@alleg.edu (Dave Blackburn)
- Newsgroups: sci.chem
- Subject: Re: HELP Wanted!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.021215.28677@pellns.alleg.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 02:12:15 GMT
- Article-I.D.: pellns.1993Jan22.021215.28677
- References: <1993Jan21.132902.91052@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- In article <1993Jan21.132902.91052@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
- hewitt@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
- |What does "ten times less" mean. Does it mean "one tenth" or does it mean
- |what it says, i.e. -(10 x argon) which is clearly nonsense. How about
- trying
- |for unambiguous scientific communication!
- |
- |David Hewitt
- |Chemistry Department
- |Monash University
- |
- |In article <davidlai.727493792@unixg.ubc.ca>, davidlai@unixg.ubc.ca (David TW
- Lai) writes:
- |> Hi netters
- |>
- |> I'm puzzling around the following problem and I am wondering
- |> whether some netters would be able to give me some hints/helps on
- |> the problem.
- |>
- |> QUESTION
- |> --------
- |> A rock specimen contains precisely ten times less potassium-40 than its
- |> radioactive decay product (half-life 1.3 billion years) argon-40. How
- |> old is this rock and where did it come from?
- |>
- |> THanks in advance.
- |>
- |> David.
- |>
-
- Well, if one interpretation is reasonable and the other is "clearly nonsens"
- that seems pretty unambiguous to me!
-
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