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The age of the dead sea scrolls was found by carbon-14 dating. could this technique have worked if they were carved in stone tablets? explain

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No because this method of dating requires a material that was once living. So, this technique wouldn’t have worked.

Why carbon - 14 dating is not reliable?

Carbon 14 gradually decays into other elements. However, when a plant or animal dies, it no longer has the ability to accumulate new carbon 14, and the supply in the organism at the time of death is gradually depleted.

Scientists can calculate the time elapsed since something died from its residual carbon 14 because the rate of depletion has been accurately determined (half of any given amount of carbon 14 decays in 5,730 years).

However, scientists have long recognized that carbon dating is subject to error due to a variety of factors, including contamination from outside carbon sources. As a result, they sought methods to calibrate and correct the carbon dating method.

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