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Exponential decay, a paleontologist finds a bone that might be a dinosaur bone. in the laboratory she finds that the carbon-14 found in the bone is 1/12 of that found in living bone tissue. Could this bone have belonged to a dinosaur? Explain your reasoning. Hint- dinosaurs lived from 220 million years ago to 63 million years ago.

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