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Why is carbon-14, with a half-life value of 5,730 years, not appropriate for finding the absolute age of dinosaur fossils?​
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Why is carbon-14, with a half-life value of 5,730 years, not appropriate for finding

the absolute age of dinosaur fossils?​

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because dinosaurs existed millions of years ago, carbon-14 has a short life that is too small to compare millions.

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