| A highly sensitive method first developed for carbon dating, AMS quantifies isotopes with a detection limit of a few adducts in 10 nucleotides. |
| Nonetheless, carbon dating is not infallible because it makes some assumptions that cannot be tested. |
| The archaeologist said archaeo-magnetic dating, similar to carbon dating, could be used to accurately determine the age of any iron dug up. |
| These techniques, unlike carbon dating, mostly use the relative concentrations of parent and daughter products in radioactive decay chains. |
| Another team recently used carbon dating to estimate that glomalin lasts 7 to 42 years, depending on conditions. |
| And carbon dating isn't used to determine the age of the earth or of fossils, so it's pretty much irrelevant to the discussion. |
