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1. You find a skill in a nearby tribe ancient burial site and with the telp of a spectrometer, you discovered that the skill contains gob of the 0-14 found in a modern skull. Assuming that the half-life of C-14 (radime carbon) is T. 730 years, how old is the skin

1. You find a skill in a nearby tribe ancient burial site and with the telp of a spectrometer, you discovered that the skill contains gob of the 0-14 found in a modern skull. Assuming that the half-life of C-14 (radime carbon) is T. 730 years, how old is the skin

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