Re: Carbon-14 fallacy in dating

John Harshman <jharshman.diespamdie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

By the way, the radiogenic isotopes we see are in just the combinations
and quantities to be expected from an earth that's billions of years
old. We see isotopes with long half-lives, and isotopes that are recent
decay products of those with long half-lives. But we don't see any
isotopes that have short half-lives unless there is a known mechanism
for producing them. Ask yourself this: why, out of all the elements in
the periodic table, is Technetium the only one lighter than Uranium that
is not found in the earth's crust?

I bet I can get it in one guess.


I suppose I actually could go look it up in my CRC just to check :-)

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Stanley Friesen

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