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Post by jonbain on Oct 4, 2019 18:28:47 GMT
Actually I cannot find any, beyond the basic point that it has a regular decay after the death of an organism - allowing good estimates as to the time of death going back to 5000 years after which it starts to get inaccurate.
I have tried searches on what role it plays in a life-form, but to no avail. For instance, if C14 only decays after death, then what aspect of the organism prevents its decay during life? Where in the body does this occur?
Also, what food-stuffs have it in most abundance? And how does it manifest in the body? Do we simply absorb it and process it? Or do life-forms actually manufacture it out of other types of Carbon? After it decays, what does it decay into?
Only questions rather than answers, but I struggled to find anything meaningful on the search engines.
Anyone know about this? It seems such a void in our understanding of life, that I was fairly surprised to find almost zero info.
Perhaps your searches may be luckier?
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Post by Elizabeth on Oct 4, 2019 18:36:38 GMT
You can carbon date living things too which doesn't work well. An arm and a leg from the same being can be different ages. So not sure why it's used to date dead things either. Unless it's because the dead can't talk to say the dating is wrong.
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Post by xxxxxxxxx on Oct 5, 2019 22:50:41 GMT
Carbon dating is bunk, they did carbon dating from recently dead mollusks and found them to be 2000 years old.
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