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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Which of the following is a method used to obtain the absolute age of a rock or fossil?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

carbon reading maybe?

OpenStudy (wach):

^ Carbon dating is the best method because it uses concrete chemical 'evidence'.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

actually it is radioactive carbon dating or you can say c14* dating.any organic compound is made up of carbon,now if we measure the rate of disintegration of c14* to normal c12 carbon,by acquring the half life or % of c14*/c12 ratio.we can easily obtain the age of that fossil.

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