Will our modern practice of dispersing nuclear particles into our atmosphere ruin the present process?
2006-09-29 19:46:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
It depends what you are dating. I think carbon dating only works on plants that breathe the air, and tells you when they stopped breathing the air, or on things that have eaten those plants, or on things that have eaten things that ate those plants.
So it can be inaccurate for things or people that eat fish, for example.
As far as I know, the increase in nuclear background radiation will only effect things that have died since then. Not on things that were already dead before the nuclear age.
But nobody uses carbon-dating on history that recent.
2006-09-29 20:02:50 · answer #1 · answered by Carl K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They had a TV show on here the once where two guys made a ceramic pot, making it look very old. They asked to have it carbon dated by a well respected science institute who came back with it as being 4000+/- years old. Should have seen their faces when they found out it was all of a few months old. It can be accurate under certain conditions I suppose.
2006-09-30 03:09:49 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Carbon Dating cannot exactly give the exact year of the existence but it gives approx idea of existence like in which quarter of which century.
2006-09-30 02:58:57 · answer #3 · answered by ashish9091 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of nuclear fallout messing with carbon-dating results. But then again, we don't use carbon-14 for nuclear energy...
2006-09-30 02:56:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
i don't trust it for two reasons. one i believe it can change in the presence of intense fire. two, it only dates from the last reset. we assume no reset. i think that wrong. just look at venus which reset quite often in geological terms. what is reset? it when the surface of a planet is subducted back into itself reforms as new surface. that surface has been reset.
2006-09-30 06:20:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-09-30 04:19:27 · answer #6 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What a strange question from someone who can't spell DATING.
2006-09-30 02:58:30 · answer #7 · answered by fed up with stupid questions 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
you are right. well it is still reasonably accurate.
2006-09-30 03:02:46 · answer #8 · answered by loveme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very accurate
2006-09-30 02:58:43 · answer #9 · answered by ftz 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
very, I dont know
2006-09-30 02:54:20 · answer #10 · answered by catch22_burningbush.bible6669 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋