Do you think that Carbon Dating is an accurate way to determine somethings age? Why or Why not?
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anonymous
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Yes, when used with dendrochronology and Stratigraphy to verify, it is an absolute dating method for organic objects <50,000 years old. However, samples need to be large and uncontaminated (by recent carbon). Compensation tables (between C-14 and C-12) need to be current. The material to be dated cannot be too old, 50,000 years, or too young because in the first case the carbon has almost or completely decayed and in the second, none or very little has decayed. So, with all these variables, that is why Carbon Dating must be verified with another dating method.
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I dated carbon once. She turned out to be a diamond in the rough and alot older than me.
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