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Hardcover Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything Book

ISBN: 0520249755

ISBN13: 9780520249752

Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything

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"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the age of objects and organisms. By examining radiocarbon (C-14) dating--the best known of these methods--and several other techniques that geologists...

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