How does radiocarbon help paleontologists to figure out how old a fossil is?
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they use c-14 carbon isotope which is radioactive. it emits àlpha,beta and gama. this helps to measure the age of fossil fuels
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Radiocarbon dating involves determining the age of an ancient fossil or specimen by measuring its carbon-14 content. ... Carbon-14 is also passed onto the animals that eat those plants. After death the amount of carbon-14 in the organic specimen decreases very regularly as the molecules decay.
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