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Jan. 14th, 2015 08:43 pm
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NCIS New Orleans has someone talking about carbon dating silver coins to the mid 1700s.

Carbon dating silver? Really?
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Date: 2015-01-15 04:19 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] bard2003.livejournal.com
silver is metal, right? metals can be dated by half life or something? may be they called it carbon dating because it's easier?

Date: 2015-01-15 10:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
Not really - the radioactive isotopes of silver are only a tiny proportion of natural silver atoms, and their half-life is so short that after that length of time there'd be little or no radioactivity left.
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