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LoginThe University of Glasgow uses cookies for analytics. Find out more about our Privacy policy. Necessary cookies enable core functionality. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, and can only be disabled by changing your browser preferences. All data is anonymised. Breakthrough will make carbon dating more accessible to scientists worldwide. The scientists have a patent pending for the technology. The new PIMS system has halved the time it takes to date carbon-containing material from anywhere in the world, and is much simpler: the SUERC scientists have gone from working with a system the size of a large bus, to one the size of a small family car. Carbon dating is used to determine the age of materials and artefacts with a biological origin - plants, fossils, bones, shells, soil and much more - up to around 50, years old.
A Scottish-based team of scientists has created a new method of accurately dating the past. They have developed an approach to the radiocarbon dating process which they say is cheaper, faster and more accessible. Potential applications include conservation, archaeology and forensic science. Every piece of organic material - ourselves included - contains a tiny amount of the radioactive isotope carbon Carbon decays over time - it takes about 5, years for half of it to be gone - which means measuring how much is left tells you the age of a sample. It can date materials and artefacts like plants, fossils, bones and soil up to about 50, years old. The problem is that existing radiocarbon dating techniques are expensive, energy intensive and use huge arrays of equipment.
Radiocarbon dating also referred to as carbon dating or carbon dating is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon , a radioactive isotope of carbon. The method was developed in the late s at the University of Chicago by Willard Libby. It is based on the fact that radiocarbon 14 C is constantly being created in the Earth's atmosphere by the interaction of cosmic rays with atmospheric nitrogen.
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