Carbon 14 dating assumes that the carbon dioxide

Libby was the American physical chemist who developed the carbon-14 dating technique.

This method is used to determine the age of ‘once living’ objects up to approximately 50,000 years.

Carbon-14 is continually formed in nature by the interaction of neutrons with nitrogen-14 in the Earth’s atmosphere; the neutrons required for this reaction are produced by cosmic rays interacting with the atmosphere.

Radiocarbon present in molecules of atmospheric carbon dioxide enters the biological carbon cycle: it is absorbed from the air by green plants and then passed on to animals through the food chain.

Carbon-14 decays into nitrogen by beta decay over time, but this process takes a long time.

The half-life of carbon-14 is 5,720 years, meaning after 5,720 years, the organism will have half the carbon-14 levels it did when it was alive.

He also helped design the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. In recognition of his contributions to thermodynamics and science, he became Lord Kelvin in 1892.

Brønsted was a Danish chemist best known for his proton theories of acids and bases.

He developed his theory at the same time as a similar theory proposed by English chemist Thomas Lowry so the theory is generally known as Bronsted-Lowry acids.

If you measure the amount of carbon-14 in a once living object, you can determine the approximate age of the organism.

Carbon-14 dating is a great tool to get approximate ages of objects made up of natural materials like cloth and wood.