Biology, asked by aarjavjan6496, 1 year ago

Why doesn't Carbon-12 decay as Carbon-14 does after an organism dies?

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Carbon is found in different forms in the environment – mainly in the stable form of carbon-12 and the unstable form of carbon-14. ... Carbon-14 has a half life of 5730 years, meaning that 5730 years after an organism dies, half of its carbon-14 atoms have decayed to nitrogen atoms.

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