Radiocarbon dating is used to determine the age of
In a way this field, called geochronology, is some of the purest detective work earth scientists do.
In this article, we will examine the methods by which scientists use radioactivity to determine the age of objects, most notably carbon-14 dating.A child mummy is found high in the Andes and the archaeologist says the child lived more than 2,000 years ago.How do scientists know how old an object or human remains are? The method was developed by Willard Libby in the late 1940s and soon became a standard tool for archaeologists.Libby received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in 1960.
Other corrections must be made to account for the proportion of throughout the biosphere (reservoir effects).
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