Find out the age of the oldest rocks on earth

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A radiometric dating technique uses the decay of U-238 to Pb-206 (the half-life for this process is 4.5 billion years) to determine the age of the oldest rocks on Earth and by implication the age of Earth itself. The oldest uranium-containing rocks on Earth contain approximately equal numbers of uranium atoms and lead atoms. Assuming the rocks were pure uranium when they were formed, how old are the rocks?

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