Why Is the Carbon-14 Dating Not Accurate for Estimating the Age

question 96

Multiple Choice

Why is the carbon-14 dating not accurate for estimating the age of materials more than 50,000 years old?

• A)This form of radioactive dating is only accurate back 1400 years.
• B)The concentration of carbon-14 in a body after 50,000 years is too low.
• C)Living organisms are too decomposed after 50,000 years.
• D)Actually,carbon-14 dating is accurate back to around 5 million years ago.

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