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Carbon 14

08/24/15

Carbon-14 Dating

The C-14 content of an ancient piece of wood was found to have three tenths of that in living trees (indicating 70% of the C-14 had decayed). How old is that piece of wood?
Carbon 14

07/13/14

help with carbon 14

carbon 14 has an atomic number of 6.  when it decays it emits beta particle.  what is the atomic number of a the new nucleus.   a. 6 b. 7 c. 2 d. 10   I think the answer is 7   thanks    

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