Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science by John F. Marra
English | June 25th, 2019 | ISBN: 0231186703 | 280 pages | EPUB | 6.04 MB
There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for its unusually long half-life. Best known for its application to estimating the age of artifacts—carbon dating—carbon-14 helped reveal new chronologies of human civilization and geological time. Everything containing carbon, the basis of all life, could be placed in time according to the clock of radioactive decay, with research applications ranging from archeology to oceanography to climatology.