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Dating

I've been on a calendar,
but I've never been on time.
 Marilyn Monroe  (1926-1962).
  • Carbon dating  is usable for material produced by living things less than a few thousands years ago.
Michon
 

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The Chronology of Unmarked Things

 (2023-06-21)   Carbon Dating
Cosmic rays conctantly tranform athmosferic nitrogen into new atom of radiocarbon (C-14).

Since the work of Van Helmont we know that the carbon in trees comes primarily from the atmodphere.  That includes a constant proporton of radiocarbon, which stars decaying when the tree dies, so new wood is more radiactivr than old wood.

Come back later, we're still working on this one...

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