Carbon-14 dating can be used to estimate the age of


Carbon-14 dating can be used to estimate the age of formerly living materials because the uptake of carbon-14 from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere stops once the organism dies. The half-life for decay of carbon-14 is 5730 years. If tissue samples from a mummy contain about 81.0% of the carbon-14 expected in living tissue, the mummy is about years old.

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