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What (who) is radiocarbon - definition

ISOTOPE OF CARBON
Radiocarbon; Carbon 14; 14c; Carbon14; 14C
  •  1: Formation of carbon-14 <br>2: Decay of carbon-14 <br>3: The "equal" equation is for living organisms, and the unequal one is for dead organisms, in which the C-14 then decays (See 2).
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radiocarbon         
also radio carbon
Radiocarbon is a type of carbon which is radioactive, and which therefore breaks up slowly at a regular rate. Its presence in an object can be measured in order to find out how old the object is.
The most frequently used method is radiocarbon dating.
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radiocarbon         
¦ noun Chemistry a radioactive isotope of carbon, especially carbon-14 used in carbon dating.
carbon-14         
¦ noun a long-lived naturally occurring radioactive carbon isotope of mass 14, used in carbon dating and as a tracer in biochemistry.

Wikipedia

Carbon-14

Carbon-14, C-14, 14
C
or radiocarbon, is a radioactive isotope of carbon with an atomic nucleus containing 6 protons and 8 neutrons. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples. Carbon-14 was discovered on February 27, 1940, by Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California. Its existence had been suggested by Franz Kurie in 1934.

There are three naturally occurring isotopes of carbon on Earth: carbon-12 (12
C
), which makes up 99% of all carbon on Earth; carbon-13 (13
C
), which makes up 1%; and carbon-14 (14
C
), which occurs in trace amounts, making up about 1 or 1.5 atoms per 1012 atoms of carbon in the atmosphere. Carbon-12 and carbon-13 are both stable, while carbon-14 is unstable and has a half-life of 5700±30 years. Carbon-14 has a maximum specific activity of 62.5 mCi/mmol (2.31 GBq/mmol), or 164.9 GBq/g. Carbon-14 decays into nitrogen-14 (14
N
) through beta decay. A gram of carbon containing 1 atom of carbon-14 per 1012 atoms will emit ~0.2 beta particles per second. The primary natural source of carbon-14 on Earth is cosmic ray action on nitrogen in the atmosphere, and it is therefore a cosmogenic nuclide. However, open-air nuclear testing between 1955 and 1980 contributed to this pool.

The different isotopes of carbon do not differ appreciably in their chemical properties. This resemblance is used in chemical and biological research, in a technique called carbon labeling: carbon-14 atoms can be used to replace nonradioactive carbon, in order to trace chemical and biochemical reactions involving carbon atoms from any given organic compound.

Examples of use of radiocarbon
1. Only radiocarbon testing could answer that question.
2. Dating techniques included radiocarbon dating and optical stimulated luminescence.
3. According to the radiocarbon dating, it was built in 1350.
4. The skeleton will be studied by human remains specialists, and bone samples sent for radiocarbon dating.
5. The necklace was made around 2100 BC, according to radiocarbon dating of nearby material.