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What isotopes is most useful for dating plant and animal remains?

CARBON DATING The most common fossil dating techniques are radiometric dating techniques. Radiometric dating uses knowledge of the decay rates of unstable ( radioactive ) nuclei to determine, by comparison with the proportion of stable nuclei in a fossil sample, the date of the introduction of the radioactive material into the live organism, especially if the isotope was ingested while the organism was alive.


Which geological epoch is carbon 14 is most useful for dating organic remains?

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Are most of the periodic table isotopes?

No most of them are not isotopes. Few elements exist as isotopes.


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Radoactive isotopes


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What are the most common isotopes of the element californium?

The isotopes 252Cf and 251Cf.


What pair of elements have the most isotopes?

Caesium and Xenon, with 36 isotopes each


What element has most number of isotopes?

Tin or Stannum with 10 stable isotopes


Are isotopes gases?

Not necessarily. Most if not all of the elements have multiple isotopes, so some are gasses but most are solids.


Why are most elements radioactive?

Most of the natural occurring (isotopes of) elements are NOT radioactive.Though most of all the known isotopes are radioactive but most of them do NOT naturally occur.


Tin has the most stable isotopes of any element How many stable isotopes does it have?

It has 10