The amount of meat in prehistoric diets can be determined by measuring the ratio

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The amount of meat in prehistoric diets can be determined by measuring the ratio of the isotopes nitrogen-15 to nitrogen-14 in bone from human remains. Carnivores concentrate,15N so this ratio tells archaeologists how much meat was consumed by ancient people. Suppose you use a velocity selector to obtain singly ionized (missing one electron) atoms of speed 8.50 km/s and want to bend them within a uniform magnetic field in a semicircle of diameter 30.0 cm for the 12C . The measured masses of these isotopes are 2.32

Explanation / Answer

The separation of the 14N and 15N isotopes is 30.0/2 cm = 15.0 cm.The separation is equal to half the diameter of the semicircle made in the uniform magnetic field.

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