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Why cant scientists use carbon-14 to determine the age of a fossil older than 100,000 years

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Step-by-step explanation:

Because of the short length of the carbon-14 half-life, carbon dating is only accurate for items that are thousands to tens of thousands of years old. Most rocks of interest are much older than this. Geologists must therefore use elements with longer half-lives.

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