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Its use in Nature by Nature is not known. The atom decays with a half life of something like 14,000 years and is present in all carbon in the earth at a certain percentage. Thus a gram of any organic substance (an organic substance is one that possess carbon and oxygen; carbon is present in food (polysaccharides, fats, sugars, proteins; and in all tissues of the body and it is present at the % that it is present on earth thruout life. When an animal or plant dies, it stops taking in C14 or any carbon when it dies. As time goes on, the % of Carbon in the dead plant of animal that is C14 decreases as C14 decays by ejection of an electron (beta decay). As this happens, the 5 of total carbon that is radioactive decreases continuously, Scientists can determine how long ago the animal died by determining how much C14 radioactivity is in a gram of that organisms carbon. If the organism died 14,000 years ago, the % would be about half of that in the earths environment (then and now, that doesn't change). Aside from its use for that calculation, C14 has no known "use" but is a product of natural radioactive decay and plays a central role in universal homeostasis.

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