An engineering student purchased piece of amber from a local

Last updated: 6/28/2023

An engineering student purchased piece of amber from a local shopping mall The amber contained the remains of an beetle Curious to know whether the gem is genuine or not the student takes the sample to the laboratory and determines the concentration of Carbon 14 5730 years After extracting a piece of the trapped beetle with a fine drill instrument analysis reported that the concentration of Carbon 14 is now only 94 If there was 100 Carbon 14 when the beetle was trapped how old is the gem and is it genuine Trivia Amberification is a polymerization process that takes several millions of years The youngest amber is around 16 million years old and can be found in the Dominican Republic 23 million years old genuine O 51 million years old genuine O 23 000 years old counterfeit O 510 years old counterfeit