Question

what is radio carbon

Answer 1

Also called carbon 14 . a radioactive isotope of carbon with mass number 14 and a half-life of about 5730 years: widely used in the dating of organic materials.

Answer 2

radiocarbon dating is a method that provides objective age estimates for carbon based materials that originated from living organisms. an age could be estimated by measuring the amount of carbon 14 present in the sample and comparing this against an internationally used reference standard.