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Carbon-14

Carbon-14 is the radioactive isotope of carbon discovered February 27th, 1940 by Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben. Its presence in organic materials is used in radiocarbon dating.

The half-life of Carbon-14 is 5,730 years. It decays into nitrogen-14 through beta-decay.

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