What is important in order for a radioisotope to provide accurate dating results?
O A. The half-life should be similar to the age of the object.
B. The radioisotope cannot be part of a decay chain.
O C. The isotope must undergo transmutation.
O D. The item being dated must be very old.

Pegmatites are igneous rocks in which the individual minerals are very large. typically, the minerals are all light-colored quartz, feldspar and muscovite. if you were given a black and white photograph of a pegmatite in a quarry (where the rock has been blasted and broken), what physical properties could you use to identify those three minerals in this hypothetical photo? describe each mineral and the specific diagnostic properties. be specific.