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How far back can you date fossils by measuring radioactive carbon decay?
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50,000 years useing carbon 14
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Radioactive dating of fossils depends on the decay of what?
plants
Does carbon dating use nuclear fusion?
No, carbon dating does not use nuclear fusion. Carbon dating is a method used to determine the age of organic materials by measuring the remaining levels of a radioactive isotope called carbon-14. This process involves the decay of carbon-14, not nuclear fusion.
What can scientists learn from the rate at which radioactive elements decay?
fossils
Why radioactive decay to date fossils and artifacts?
Because they want to sound smarticles
Does carbon 14 decay into chemistry?
Caebon-14 is a radioactive isotope and can decay.
Radioactive decay of carbon isotopes can be use for?
to allow the correct amount of oxygen to enter and leave the substance
What are the changes in the radioactive decay of carbon-14?
Carbon-14 undergoes beta decay, becoming nitrogen-14 which is stable.
What is primarily releases in a radioactive decay?
plants and animals die and then decay to release carbon compound in then
What kind of dating is done by using radioactive decay?
Carbon dating
How does carbon dating work ma?
Carbon dating works by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon-14 in a sample. Carbon-14 is present in all living organisms and decays at a known rate after death. By comparing the amount of carbon-14 remaining in a sample to the amount in living organisms, scientists can determine the sample's age.
Does The amount of radioactive carbon in your body increases at the time of death?
The amount of radioactive carbon in the body is fixed at the time of death. After death, the carbon would the begin to decay.
How radioactive decay relates to radiometric dating?
The rate of radioactive decay of various isotopes provide a variety of different timebases for "clocks" that can be used for measuring the ages of samples ranging from as little as a few hundred years (e.g. carbon dating) to as long as billions of years (e.g. uranium-lead dating).
