
How does carbon dating work?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Controversy Over Radiocarbon Dating
kelly: Radiocarbon dating is a really cool technique and it's powerful because it can date things to like within a few decades. right so has this method been used in a way that ended up making people angry why do i feel like you're digging for the controversy here kelly well you know it makes good radio it does absolutely yeah the thing is that there's a lot of carbon in living stuff and the more carbon you have the more precise your measurement can be.
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