How is carbon 14 made?
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Carbon-14[1] is a naturally occurring radioisotope.
It is produced mainly on the atmosphere when a Nitrogen-14 is bombarded by a cosmic ray, absorbing a neutron and emitting a proton on this process.
With a half-life of about 6000 years, it is a useful marker for dating living creature for it is considered that the C-12/C-14 ratio is constant on the atmosphere and therefore any living creature maintains this ratio while alive due to the Carbon cycle.
Only after a creature is dead that it stops up taking carbon and therefore the ratio changes due to the decay of C-14 to N-14.
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