Thanks To Fossil Fuels, Carbon Courting Is In Jeopardy One Scientist Could Have A Simple Fix Science
of radiocarbon in our our bodies. When the neutron collides, a nitrogen-14 (seven protons, seven neutrons) atom turns right into a carbon-14 atom (six protons, eight neutrons) and a hydrogen atom (one proton, zero neutrons). Carbon-14 is radioactive, with a half-life of about 5,700 years. By measuring whether these levels of Carbon-13 are skewed in …