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Which of these four radioactive elements would you choose to date a fossil from the most recent epoch?
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∙ 13y ago
Four elements are not mentioned but fossils contain organic material that means carbon compounds so carbon-13 isotope is more suitable, in case of radioactive elements that isotope is most suitable which have the half life period in millions of years.
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