Radiocarbon measurements made in 1988 on the shroud of turin showed a decay rate of 14.2 disintegrations/min per gram of carbon. this is in comparison to the decay rate in the then current living organisms of 15.3 disintegrations/min per gram of carbon. given a half-life of 5730 years for carbon-14, what year is the artifact from?

hydrocarbons are organic compounds that contain only hydrogens and carbons. they can be saturated (those which contain only carbon-carbon single bonds) or unsaturated (those which contain carbon-carbon double or triple bonds) in nature. hydrocarbons can undergo several reactions like substitution, elimination etc.  

on substituting one or more hydrogen atoms in hydrocarbon it results in the formation of haloalkane. as the halogen atoms are large compared to the carbon and hydrogen atoms, due to which the molecular weight increases and the bond become polar because of presence electronegative halogen atom and results in the increase in boiling point of the haloalkane.

thus, the correct option is (b) that is the boiling point of the new compound increases on substituting a hydrogen atom with a halogen in a hydrocarbon.