Why is carbon dating not useful for artifacts made entirely of metal?

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Why is carbon dating not useful for artifacts made entirely of metal?

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2007-01-16 09:56:39 · 3 answers · asked by RickySingh2006 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry

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Carbon dating is testing the halflife of radioactive carbon in the object that accumulated while it was alive.
Alive being the key word here... very few metal artifacts were alive....

2007-01-16 10:02:39 · answer #1 · answered by Jay 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋

Because the metal artifacts contain no carbon.

2007-01-16 10:00:08 · answer #2 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

The clue is, go back and look at the term CARBON dating.

2007-01-16 10:00:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋