Radioactive Dating
In the nineteenth century, prominent scientists such as Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin, Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), and Thomas Huxley, were in continual debate about the age o...
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Radioactive Dating
Radioactive dating is a technique which allows for accurate determination of the age of materials. The most common type of radioactive dating is called radiocarbon dating, which can...
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Radioactive Dating
Before the twentieth century, determining the age of ancient artifacts was considered the job of archaeologists, not nuclear physicists. By comparing the placement of objects with t...
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