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Chapter 4, Problem 54IF
Carbon-14 Dating. The half-life of carbon-14 is about 5700 years.
- a. You find a piece of cloth painted with organic dyes. By analyzing the dye in the cloth, you find that only 77% of the carbon-14 originally in the dye remains. When was the cloth painted?
- b. A well-preserved piece of wood found at an archaeological site has 6.2% of the carbon-14 that it must have had when it was living. Estimate when the wood was cut.
- c. Suppose a fossil is 570,000 years old, which is 100 half-lives of carbon-14. What fraction of its original carbon-14 would remain? Use your answer to explain why carbon-14 generally is not useful for dating fossils of this age.
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