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Radiocarbon dating (also
referred to as
carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a
method for
determining the age of an
object containing organic material...
- Carbon-14, C-14, 14 C or
radiocarbon, is a
radioactive isotope of
carbon with an
atomic nucleus containing 6
protons and 8 neutrons. Its
presence in organic...
- to
specify when
events occurred relative to the
origin of
practical radiocarbon dating in the 1950s.
Because the "present" time changes,
standard practice...
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Radiocarbon dating measurements produce ages in "
radiocarbon years",
which must be
converted to
calendar ages by a
process called calibration. Calibration...
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Radiocarbon is a
scientific journal devoted to the
topic of
radiocarbon dating. It was
founded in 1959 as a
supplement to the
American Journal of Science...
- Archaeology. The
laboratory includes the
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU),
which carries out
radiocarbon dating using an
accelerator m**** spectrometer...
- Raw
radiocarbon dates are not
accurate calendar years of the
event and this has to do with the fact that the
level of
atmospheric radiocarbon fluctuates...
- has
undergone numerous scientific tests, the most
notable of
which is
radiocarbon dating, in an
attempt to
determine the relic's authenticity. In 1988...
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concentration of 14C, e.g. by
archaeologists for
radiocarbon dating.
Compared to
other radiocarbon dating methods, AMS
requires smaller sample sizes...
- The
calculation of
radiocarbon dates determines the age of an
object containing organic material by
using the
properties of
radiocarbon (also
known as carbon-14)...
