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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined:
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A couple of items that are at least tangential to this thread and topic:
A paper by Burke and Robinson in the 3 Feb 2012 issue of Science has a plausible-sounding explanation for the "wiggle" in carbon-14 dating curves around 16,000 years ago - the Southern Ocean gave up a huge "burp" of C-14 depleted water that had been in the deeps there for a long while. Abstract:
Changes in the upwelling and degassing of carbon from the Southern Ocean form one of the leading hypotheses for the cause of glacial-interglacial changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide. We present a 25,000-year-long Southern Ocean radiocarbon record reconstructed from deep-sea corals, which shows radiocarbon-depleted waters during the glacial period and through the early deglaciation. This depletion and associated deep stratification disappeared by ~14.6 ka (thousand years ago), consistent with the transfer of carbon from the deep ocean to the surface ocean and atmosphere via a Southern Ocean ventilation event. Given this evidence for carbon exchange in the Southern Ocean, we show that existing deep-ocean radiocarbon records from the glacial period are sufficiently depleted to explain the ~190 per mil drop in atmospheric radiocarbon between ~17 and 14.5 ka. And, a news piece in Nature on 16 Feb. tells of a recent paper in Physical Review Letters that describes a optical-spectroscopy way to measure carbon 14 at much lower levels than current methods can. This may well allow carbon dating further into the past, though folks will have to be even more vigilant about contamination than they are now. And the instrumentation is potentially far cheaper than accelerator mass spectrometers. Edited by Coragyps, : tags
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
Hmmm. I would expect better science reporting out of Nature. That's disappointing - though they really left it unsaid just how the sensitivity compared.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
[Dalrymple] states this shield prevents all but extreme forces like nuclear reactions from altering nuclei. Uhhhh......"nuclear reactions" are what make nuclei decay. Electron capture and beta decay rates can be affected by things like stripping the electron shell off of an atom, but alpha decay (like in uranium dating) not so much. And I'm betting that your "shield" would affect the rates of alpha and beta processes in opposite directions, anyway. Where are our physicists? Edited by Coragyps, : fix punctuation"The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails." H L Mencken
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
It's under Argon. Where under "argon?" I think you're making things up.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined:
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"No one has tried it??"
What is that even supposed to mean? Physicists have been investigating nuclear decay for a bit over a century now. They sort of have some inklings of the paths that nuclei take to change into different nuclei. It is pretty precisely known how much energy you get when a potassium 40 atom decays to an argon 40 atom. Are you seriously trying to say that an argon atom can just decide that it wants to Hoover up that amount of energy and a positron and become potassium? I think it might need a Dyson instead of a Hoover.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined:
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As the saying goes, you aren't even wrong!
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined:
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How would a human body expel carbon-14, exactly? Yes, we expel carbon with every breath, but I'm going to hazard a guess that C-14 leaves slower than C-12. It's called an isotope effect. Heavier is typically slower - or that's how it has worked for me.
Quit making shit up, OS. It clogs bandwidth.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined:
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Carbon-14, or carbon-12 or carbon-13, are all about equally hydrophobic if they are in the form of graphite, for one example. All three are very fond of water if they are in a compound that is appropriate for human metabolism, like maybe glucose or carbon dioxide.
Go read the first forty posts of this thread, OS. Oh, added by edit: carbon-11 is sometimes used in PET scans. No radioisotopes are needed in MRI. Edited by Coragyps, : No reason given.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
Hasn't been done, OS? You've done a literature search and have a bibliography of all proton bombardment studies ever tried?
I thought not. And what, exactly, is the relevance of proton bombardment to carbon dating anyway? I hope that you don't expect proton storms wherever you live - they sound unhealthy to me.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined:
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Dating dinosaur bones with carbon-14 has EVERYTHING to do "with the range of the method." You can't do it. It isn't done.
The range of a yardstick makes it an inappropriate tool to measure the distance to Jupiter. For exactly the same sort of reason, C-14 dating is useless for 65,000,000 years. "The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails." H L Mencken
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined:
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Think of going to a major university and spending a few days paging through Chemical Abstracts, for a starter. Start about 1950, or maybe even 1930. I'm going to bet that plenty of carbon has been bombarded by protons, and that there are PhD theses on the results. Take a lunch - though you may have to leave it outside the building.
Just because something is scientific knowledge, there is no guarantee that it is on the internet. A lot of science was done before 1995. Though Google Scholar could turn up something..
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined:
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No, neutrons and protons from the "outside" have nothing to do with it. Potassium-40
is radioactive. It decays, to Ca-40 and Ar-40, all by itself.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined:
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Neither chlorine-38 nor chlorine-39 are either calcium-40 or argon-40. Sort of like a duck is not a frog, and a persimmon not a paramecium. That, and 40+1-4 does not equal 38, so one argon-40 plus one proton minus one alpha particle ( the four) won't get you to anything-38.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
The proof is that liquid rock is a very poor solvent for gases like argon. If an atom of potassium-40 decays to argon in soup, the argon escapes. If it decays in a crystal in a rock, it has a difficult time breaking out.
If the rock gets melted (or near-melted) with trapped argon in it, the argon can escape and the clock gets reset to zero.
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Coragyps Member (Idle past 760 days) Posts: 5553 From: Snyder, Texas, USA Joined: |
Argon itself has to be colder than 302 below zero Fahrenheit to be molten.
If you mean "in molten rock" i told you up above - it escapes from the soup. Unless, I suppose, you find a rock that can be molten at -302F. Then it could stay. Edited by Coragyps, : Fix tpyos
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