Category Archives: Carbon-14 Dating

History Historic History In Depth: The Story Of Carbon Dating

The distinction between atmospheric carbon-14 and the remaining carbon-14 in that fossils is calculated and is used to search out out the age of that species. The following half-life equations (1) and (2) are implied for this function. The key issues about C-14 are that it is radioactive, that it’s unstable, which forces it to […]