Question 13 Marks
Knowing the age:
- Describe carbon $14$
- Which are stable form of carbon $?$
- When do the animals and plants stop to take carbon $14\ ?$
- What is archaeomagnetic technology $?$
Answer
View full question & answer→For dating, the technology is used widely. One of them is radiocarbon dating. The radicocarbon or carbon $14$ is unstable and weakly readioative form of carbon. The carbon $12$ and $13$ are stable forms. The carbon $12$ takes form and then changes in upper atmosphere. The plants and animals take Carbon $14$ during life and stop it after death. Then it starts to decrease at a rate determined by the law of radio active decay. It is designed to measure this leftover radioactivity. The age of a living being can be known by knowing how much carbon $14$ is left at its death. Another method is archaeomagnetic dating, and the easiest is the tree ring dating. Every year, the changes in a tree take place because of rainfall. They convert in to year rings. The methods are useful in knowing the historical events $-$ its time, civilization, rocks, crime investigation too.