Re: Carbon Dating (how sweet)

[bivalve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Campbell)]

>>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.
>
Proably the best test we have for constancy of long-term rates is the good
agreement among different isotopes and other methods in samples which can
be dated in numerous ways.

David Campbell   "old seashells"
Department of Geology
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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