How old is a piece of cotton cloth if the half-life of carbon-14 is 5,730 years, and the carbon-14 composition of the cloth is 22 percent that of living plants?

5600 years

Explanation:

the amount of time it takes for the quantity to lose 50% (Half life) of its value. The half-life of carbon-14 is about 5600 years. Thus, after 5600 years, a piece of cotton cloth will contain half the carbon-14 that was in the original cotton plant.

a mercury barometer is a device that uses the physical properties of mercury in a tube to measure barometric pressure. mercury barometers are used for : -

1. measurement of atmospheric pressure  

2. determining the altitude of a place

3. weather forecasting

4. calibration and checking of aneroid barometers

5. application in fluid mechanics

6. measurement of pressure in aircrafts

7. surface weather analysis

8. preparation of barographs

9. usage in physical sciences like physics, astronomy & chemistry

10. preparation of aircraft altimeters

characteristics of mercury barometer : -

1.used to define and measure atmospheric pressure.

2.on the average at sea level the column of mercury rises to a height of about 760 mm.

3.this quantity is equal to 1 atmosphere.

4.it is also known as standard atmospheric pressure.

5.a barometer in which the weight of a column of mercury in a glass tube with a sealed top is balanced against that of the atmosphere pressing on an exposed cistern of mercury at the base of the mercury column, the height of the column varying with atmospheric pressure.