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Describe the relationship between the amount of C-15 and time?

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As time increases, C-15 (Carbon) decreases. During radioactive decay, the amount of Carbon in a substance undergoes half-lives (A sample could have a half life of 1002 years, for example.) When that substance ages to that timeframe, it loses half of its mass. Then for the next half-life, it loses half of that new mass, and so on.

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