Say a clay pot is dated. Since radiometric dating involves seeing how much the isotopes have decayed in a sample, wouldn’t that only get the age the clay minerals were on earth as minerals rather then how long it’s been shaped into a pot? How are scientists able to distinguish that?
#1 by Soc the Poetic Chemist on October 25th, 2011
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if it was fired with wood heat it incorpated C
the ration of Cs indicate age
#2 by liltjwboy10 on October 25th, 2011
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very carefully