Friday, January 7, 2011

HOW C-14 DATING WORKS! (SHORT VIDEO FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING)

C-14, or Carbon-14 is one of the popular radioactive elements used for "dating" aged artifacts/rocks/fossils that was dug out from an archaeologic site. As long as the object got Carbon, we could use C-14 to date how old the object is.

Here is a video that  explains how C-14 and the use of its HALF-LIFE works for us.

 


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