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Triss [41]
3 years ago
12

Which statement describes why radiocarbon dating has an upward limit of 50 000 years

Chemistry
1 answer:
tekilochka [14]3 years ago
7 0
Because <span> The half-life of carbon-14 is around 5,700 years. So, by measuring the half-live of the sample, we could predict how old the sample actually is.
</span><span>After 50,000 years there is  probably less than 1% of the original C-14 left which make it much more accurate to measure, so, the upward limit is put on 50,000 years.</span>
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