Question

A certain fossil of a beetle contains 15% as much carbon as a living beetle. The age of the fossil can be found using carbon dating.

Calculate the age of this fossil given that the half life of carbon-14 is 5715 years.

Answer 1

Fossil

are impressions of plants or animals embedded in rock and preserved. They may be in the form of a body or trace.

The age of the fossils is determined by the Radioactive carbon dating technique in which the half-life of carbon and found radioactive elements is determined to calculate the age of a fossil