Questions tagged [radioactivity]

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Does the relative abundance of radioactive isotopes reflect their half-lives?

In Radiometric Dating: A Christian Perspective, the author argues (persuasively, I think) in favor of the mainstream interpretation of radiometric dating (as opposed to the claims of young earth creationists). He says the fact that short-lives…
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Is radiocarbon dating based on assumptions?

https://benpiper.com/2011/07/the-truth-about-carbon-dating/ The site above explains that Carbon-14 dating is based on a few assumptions, like to deduce the age of an organism by looking at the amount of Carbon-14 left in it and calculating its age…