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This document discusses absolute dating using radioactive isotopes. It defines absolute dating as providing the age of a fossil or rock in years rather than relative terms. Radiometric dating, which involves measuring the decay of radioactive isotopes, is the most common method of absolute dating. The document explains the basics of atoms, isotopes, and radioactive decay. It describes how the half-life of a radioactive parent isotope can be used to determine the age of a sample by measuring the ratio of par

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John Osborne

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