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When fossils or minerals form, certain unstable elements are sometimes locked into them. The proportion of these unstable elements gradually decreases over time as they decay into other materials in a predictable way. Scientists use the rate at which such unstable elements decay to determine when the fossils or minerals formed. The technique described above is known as as

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