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Which one of the following decay series is incorrect along with their half life ?

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Uranium-235 to Lead-350 at 200 million years

Uranium-235 to Lead-350 at 200 million years option is correct.

This series is doubly wrong: the daughter product of the \(^{235}\!U\) decay chain is \(^{207}\!Pb\), not the non-existent lead-350 (lead's heaviest known isotope is around mass 214). The accepted half-life is \(7.04\times 10^{8}\) years, i.e. about 704 million years, not 200 Ma. It is the workhorse of U-Pb zircon geochronology precisely because that half-life covers most of geological time.

The other three couples are standard reference values: \(^{14}\!C\to{}^{14}\!N\) at 5,730 y (radiocarbon dating), \(^{40}\!K\to{}^{40}\!Ar\) at \(1.25\times 10^{9}\) y (K-Ar and Ar-Ar dating), and \(^{87}\!Rb\to{}^{87}\!Sr\) at ~48,800 Ma (Rb-Sr isochron dating of ancient rocks).

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