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Why would the carbon dating method be useless in dating old coins but not old pieces of adobe brick?
17 years ago

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Anonymous
the material being tested has to contain organic material containing carbon.
17 years ago
Emily
Oh! That makes sense. Thanks so much!! :-)
17 years ago

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