Radioactive carbon: an indicator of the maximum age of the Earth

Featured as a back-of-page article in the CSABC Quarterly Letter of December 2016 by David Kadylak Let’s explore is how radiocarbon (carbon-14) is found nearly everywhere. You’ve probably heard of radioactive carbon-14 used as a common dating method. Due to its short half-life, 5,730 years, it can never demonstrate that

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