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Carbon 14

Carbon-14On Earth, Carbon has two stable (nonradioactive) isotopes which are carbon-12 and carbon-13 ... table (nonradioactive) isotopes which are carbon-12 and carbon-13 and one unstable isotope which is carbon-14. The numbers 12, 13 and 14 represent the atomic mass of the respective isotopes (the quant ... hat shows the number of protons added to the number of neutrons the atom possesses) (Bydlon, N.D.). Carbon-14, also known as radiocarbon, is a radioactive isotope of carbon which contains a nucleus wi ...

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Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry