Detection limits. <- our limiter when it comes to using something like C14 for dating anything older than about 100,000 years (newer machines can measure quantities low enough to get ages up to that for C14 now).
It is an exponential decay, meaning that the older it is, the less C14 there is to measure. The less there is to measure, the more difficult it is to measure. And at some point, it becomes impossible to measure as it asymptotically approaches 0.
It is an exponential decay, meaning that the older it is, the less C14 there is to measure. The less there is to measure, the more difficult it is to measure. And at some point, it becomes impossible to measure as it asymptotically approaches 0.
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