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The half-life of carbon-14 is about 5700 years.
Carbon dating is based on the assumption that the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 in the atmosphere has remained constant over time.
When living material dies, it stops taking in new carbon, including carbon-14.
The ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 increases over time after the death of an organism.
The nuclide notation 92238U indicates uranium with 146 neutrons.
The nucleus left behind after alpha decay is the same element as the original nucleus.
Gamma rays are the most ionizing type of radiation.
A Geiger-Müller tube detects radiation by counting the number of ionizing particles.
Beta decay increases the proton number of the nucleus by 1.
An alpha particle has a relative charge of +2 and a high ionizing effect.