(June 10, 2025 at 1:03 am)Paleophyte Wrote:(June 9, 2025 at 10:18 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote: These minerals form from the cooling of magma?!
Are you claiming that heated atoms don't radioactively decay?
Can you prove that?
Yes, the minerals form from the cooling of lava. That's what lava is, liquid mineral.
No, atoms don't stop decaying just because you heat them. The minerals stop recording the decay product above a certain temperature. So the decay product still happens but all trace of it is lost. Above the closure temperature all record of the decay is erased.
closure temperature has nothing to do with decay...
