Re: Carbon Dating (how sweet)

[claus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Claus Hedegaard)]

>i'm supposing that somewhere in
>some lab people are trying to figure out how to _change_ the rate of
>radioactive decay, in order to deal with radioactive waste.

 Radioactive decay rates are actually very constant and independent of
outside factors (that is why they are used for dating) - I have only heard
of one isotope of Bi (?), which has a decay slightly dependent on
temperature.

 Claus


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