a: Carbon-14 ~
b: wool sweater
What:
Carbon 14 is an unstable isotope of carbon. As time passes it looses some of it's mass through beta decay. It takes about 5,730 years for a sample to loose half its weight. Think of it as a wool sweater that takes a long time to shrink to 1/2 its initial size.
Useful?
Writer: Lucrezia
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Dec 6 2014 1:59 PM
# 6614 Critique Analogy