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What are the limitations of carbon14 dating?

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(1) After several times the half-life, the amount of C-14 that remains is so small that it is hard to measure accurately. (2) It is only useful when you can assume that a certain number of years ago, an object got most of its carbon from the atmosphere. This basically restricts it to dating living beings.
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