Carbon Dating Process ( what is Carbon-14)
Carbon Dating Process? The basis of radiocarbon dating is simple: all living things absorb carbon from the atmosphere and food sources around them , including a certain amount of natural, radioactive carbon-14. When the plant or animal dies, they stop absorbing, but the radioactive carbon that they've accumulated continues to decay. Dating techniques used by scientists- * Age of rocks * Fossils * Artifacts (1) Relative Dating, method tell only one sample is older or younger than another. (2) Absolute dating method provide an approximate date in year. (3) Carbon is one of the chemical element on the Earth. (4) All carbon atom have a nucleus containing six protons and 99% of these also countoin six neutrons. 6 Proton + 6 Neutron = Carbon 12 (5) C12 and C13 are stable, but C14 is not. (6) In any given mass of C-14, half of them will decay in 5730 years. ■ Dating techniques are procedures us...