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The total amount of radioactive substance will never reach zero because it decays in half-lives. For C-14 is 5730 years, this means that after 5730 years one half of the original material will have decayed. After another 5730 years the remaining radioactive material (1/2 the original) will have decayed by 1/2 once again.

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