Radiocarbon dating, memories, and hopes [electronic resource]
The history of radiocarbon dating from 1939 to the present is reviewed. The basic principles of radiocarbon dating are that cosmic rays make living things radioactive with ¹⁴C to a certain level fixed by the environment and that at death the intake of food stops so no replenishment of the ¹⁴C steadi...
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Arlington, Va. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. :
National Science Foundation (U.S.) ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy,
1972.
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E 1.99:conf-721019--(p1)
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