¹⁴C Decays to ¹⁴N with a Half-Life of About 5,700

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Essay

¹⁴C decays to ¹⁴N with a half-life of about 5,700 years.Suppose you find a fossil in which the amount of ¹⁴C is only 1⁄16 of what one would find in a living organism with the same carbon content.Approximately how old is the fossil?

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