What is radioactive carbon dating?

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Marsha
Feb 9, 2015

  • radioactive carbon dating or carbon-14-dating is used to find the age of speciments that are no more than 50,000 years ago.

  • the age of the speciments can be calculated by comparing the present level of carbon 14 per kilogram with that of the living organism.

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