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- Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:08 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Radiometric dating
- Replies: 23
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carbon dating is only good for about 50,000 years the atmospheric C13 is changed by nuclear bomb blasts but it's sorta like setting a clock ahead 5 mins ..you know its 5 minutes fast so you can figure out the correct time there are other factors that can change the amount of C13 absorbed as well.......
- Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:55 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Radiometric dating
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6786