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Uploaded by on Jul 23, 2008

Find out how carbon is used to determine how long ago an organism had died!

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  • LIES CARBON 14 IS NOT ACCURATE BECAUSE I AM TO DUMB TO UNDERSTAND IT. THEREFORE THE EARTH IS 6000 YEARS OLD.

    STOP BEING SMART, I HATE SMART PEOPLE, STOP SAYING THE EARTH IS 4.5 WITH YOUR INTELLIGENCE.

    THERE EARTH IS 6000 YEARS OLD.

  • 4 people prefer the logic and accuracy of ancient scriptures over carbon dating.

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  • This was much more precise than my prof's 30 min lecture on this topic..:p

  • Carbon is a huge bitch. I dumped her for Relative. 

  • There are really not that many half lives in the amount of time that carbon dating can say how old each specimen is. Carbon dating does accuratley tell you how old something is but there is new technology so what is the point of carbon dating anyways. We can go back so much further then this can which, according to Bill Bryson, is 5,600 years. We can go all the way back to dinasours this day in age.

  • its so simple to understand this concept. screw the hate comments. u know nothing , NOTHING !!!

  • That was actually kinda easy to understand....goddamn physics hw.

  • urhhhhhkkkkk soooo geeky D=

  • @mangaka08 carbon dating does not go much past 35,000 years ago. Different radiometric tests are used for fossils. Any test has an error margin but if the test is conducted properly with a full understanding of what can mess up a test the results are very consistant. No radiometric test has an error margin of billions of years because the earth is only 4-5 billion years old.

  • @SqueakerAlpha True, but there are so many fluctuations among dates that many times they don't corroborate very well. Even different parts of the same animals have turned up having different ages by billions of years. That's too large of an error margin for an accurate reading. Either they filed down the dinosaur bones so that they fit in order to place different aged bones together, which would make no sense, or it's inaccurate. Either one does not look good towards the accuracy of carbondating

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