Give that the half-life of the radioisotope carbon -14 is 5730 years , how useful do you think this this isotope would be for dating bones that are over a million years old ?

Give that the half-life of the radioisotope carbon -14 is 5730 years , how useful do you think this this isotope would be for dating bones that are over a million years old ?

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