This video is over absolute, or radioactive, dating of rocks, specifically covering: isotope basics, types of radioactive decay, half lives and calculating age using half lives, and the types of rocks that can be accurately dating using these methods.

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0:00 General concept of absolute dating
0:56 Relative vs. absolute dating
1:43 Radioactive isotope basics
2:40 Radioactive decay of isotopes
3:18 Are all isotopes radioactive?
4:16 Alpha decay
5:38 Beta decay
6:27 Beta capture
7:05 Alpha decay illustration
7:39 Beta decay illustration
7:57 Beta capture illustration
8:12 Half lives
10:17 What types of rocks can we radioactively date?
11:19 Radiometric dating process
11:43 Radiometric dating practice problems!

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