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Uranium-lead radiometric dating is most often performed on which mineral?

feldspar
quartz
mica
zircon

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Uranium-lead radiometric dating is most often performed on the mineral zircon.
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Answer: Zircon is the Mineral that Uranium-lead radiometric dating is most often performed on.

Explanation: Zircon is a compound with the chemical formula ZrSiO4.

In this method, comparison of the abundance of a naturally occurring radioactive isotope such as Uranium within the material to the abundance of its decay products, which form at a known constant rate of decay.

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