Carbon 14 – What is It? What’s It for?
The carbon-14 or the so called radiocarbon is a natural radioactive isotope of the element carbon getting these numbers because it has mass number fourteen made of six protons and eight neutrons. This can be used to date old corpses such as Egyptian kings and bones found but not fossils because they are too old. This isotope has two more neutrons in its nucleus that the stable isotope carbon-12. Among the five unstable isotopes of carbon carbon-14 is one that has the longest half-life which is approximately 5730 years. Long enough to date very old corpses.
