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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
radio carbon thingymabobber
Radiocarbon dating is a way of finding out how old something is. How it works is through the slow decay of radioactive carbon 14, a part of carbon which is the "building block of life". Basically all life forms contain some form of carbon 14, so when you calculate how much carbon 14 is left in a life form, presumably dead, and then put it into the carbon 14/carbon 12 ratio, you have the age of the life form.
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oh, gabby, I'm so sad for you - I am the first person on this entry that posted...and it's been on here for days. Maybe it's cause nobody understood it. Don't worry,I did. thats one in a million. Or is it a million in one..? whatever.
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