Radiocarbon Dating 2
Radiocarbon dating was known to be worldwide and best absolute dating methods in history of time. In 1949 J.R Arnold and W.F. Libby designed this process which became an essential tool kit for the archaeologists even today they use it. Archaeologists used this tool to determine the date of artifacts. This measures the radioisotope carbon – 14 that still exist in the historical artifacts they have found.
Archaeologist say they find more radiocarbon in mostly plants and animals because plants contain radiocarbon and animals eat the plants so now when the living organism dies who knows how they have been found. In that case they need to know the age of the living organism so they go through the process which goes from finding the bone of the organism take it to the laboratory to test it. By that they exam the bone looking for any fragments of proteins because with that they can determine the actual age. The bone has to be cleaned up so they can avoid any containments then part of the bone is crushed up into pieces. With those pieces they need to fast-track the process of chemical reaction which they use hydrochloric acid, so it can dissolve the hard layer of the bone.
Gelatinisation is the second part of the process the bone goes into so the archaeologists can figure out the radiocarbon age. This process helps the bone remove all the containments so it can turn into a texture that always the water to be used in sequences of chemical reactions to change all carbon atoms that remains in the bone into benzene. Scintillator chemical is added into the liquid benzene with that going they connect it to a liquid scintillator spectrometer to count per minute of the decays that occurred. With the results of the spectrometer analyzed there they can provide the radiocarbon