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26 March, 05:06

If the half-life of carbon is about 5,730 years, then a fossil that has one-sixteenth the normal proportion of carbon-14 to carbon-12 should be about how many years old?

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  1. 26 March, 05:29
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    Four half-lives ^

    5,730*4=22,920 years.
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