The amount of meat in prehistoric diets can be determined by measuring the ratio of the isotopes nitrogen-15 to nitrogen-14 in bone from human remains. Carnivoresconcentrate 15N, so this ratio tells archaeologists how much meat was consumed by ancient people. Suppose you use a velocity selector to obtain singly ionized(missing one electron) atoms of speed 8.50 km/s and want to bend them within a uniform magnetic field in a semicircle of diameter 25.0 cm for the 12C. The measuredmasses of these isotopes are 2.32×10−26 kg (14N), 1.99×10−26 kg (12C) and 2.49×10−26 kg (15N).Question: Find the separation of the 14N and 15N isotopes at the detector.s= ________________________cm
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