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butalik [34]
3 years ago
5

Why do scientist use radioactive decay to figure out how old stuff is

Physics
1 answer:
Vlad [161]3 years ago
7 0
Instead of what ?
How would YOU do it ? 
What other way would you suggest ?

I mean, fossil bones and broken chips of Hittite pottery
don't exactly have manufacturing dates printed on them.
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