(June 10, 2025 at 4:29 pm)SubtleVirtue Wrote:(June 10, 2025 at 4:27 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It kinda does. That the reason in fact, it’s called ‘closure temperature’.
Boru
it refers to isotopes moving out of the mineral, not to decay of the isotopes
That's right, but it refers to the ability of the mineral to preserve a record of the decay. The decay will still happen, but without closure, the mineral can't preserve a record of it having happened and that means that you can't measure it. Think of it like a society without historians. Sure, they'll still have history, but without a preserved record we won't know what it was.
