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Radiometric dating with carbon-14 is used to date what
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Radiometric dating with carbon-14 is used to date what

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Radiocarbon dating is also simply called Carbon-14 dating. Carbon-14 is a radioactive isotope of carbon, with a half-life of 5,730 years, (which is very short compared with the above isotopes) and decays into nitrogen.
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