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The measurement is useful in radiometric dating because exponential decay means it doesn't matter how much radioactive material you have, the time taken until half of it is gone [the half-life] is always the same.
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here are the choices mold fossil radioactive decay carbon-14 remains hard missing layer trace
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Radioactive decay, also known as nuclear decay or radioactivity, is the process by which a nucleus of an unstable atom loses energy by emitting radiation.
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