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Carbon dating measures the radioactive decay of carbon-14
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Finding out how old a bone is requires checking its radioactive half-life. While an organism is alive, it absorbs a steady ratio of unstable Carbon-14 from the atmosphere. The exact second it dies, that radioactive carbon slowly begins decaying into nitrogen. Scientists just count the missing radiation to date the corpse.
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