{{B}}Radiocarbon
Dating{{/B}} Nowadays scientists can answer many questions about the past through a technique called radiocarbon (放射), or carbon-14, dating. One key to understanding how and why something happened is to discover when it happened. Radiocarbon dating was developed in the late 1940s by physicist Willard F. Libby at the University of Chicago. An atom of ordinary carbon, called carbon-12, has six protons (质子) and six neutrons (中子) in its nucleus(原子核). Carbon-14,or C-14,is a radioactive,unstable form of carbon that has two extra neutrons. It returns to a more stable form of carbon through a process called decay(衰减). This process involves the loss of the extra neutrons and energy from the nucleus. In Libby’s radiocarbon dating 更多"请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断:如果该句提供的是正确信息,请选择A"的相关试题: [单项选择] 请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断:如果该句提供的是正确信息,请选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息,请选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及,请选择C。
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