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Carbon Dating and Estimating Fossil Age

Half-life of Carbon-14

Half-life of Carbon-14

Radiometric dating is a technique used to date materials such as rocks or carbon, usually based on a comparison between the observed abundance of a naturally occurring radioactive isotope and its decay products, using known decay rates.

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