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Identify two differences between carbon-12 and carbon-14

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The half life and neutron number.

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Carbon 14 is unstable, slowly decaying into nitrogen 14; carbon 12 is stable.
Carbon 14 has two extra neutrons in its nucleus, so it’s heavier than carbon 12.
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