Since no one has been around and taking measurements for 5730 years to verify C14 half-life, how do we know how fast any element decays over more than a 100-year time-period? It
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The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years. If 6.25% of the original sample remains, how old is the sample? - Quora
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