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What is (a) radio-carbon dating (b) potassium-argon dating

What is (a) radio-carbon dating (b) potassium-argon dating

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Radio-carbon dating is a technique for measuring the age of organic remains based on the rate of decay of carbon 14.

Potassium argon dating is a method of determining the time of origin of rocks by measurring the ratio of radioactive argon to radioactive potassium in the rock.
limooh answered the question on February 22, 2018 at 09:04

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