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Carbon-14 undergoes radioactive decay with a half-life of ~5,700 years. Carbon-12 is a stable isotope.

Carbon-14 undergoes radioactive decay with a half-life of ~5,700 years. Carbon-12 is a stable isotope. If a bone recovered from an archeological site has a ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 that is 1/16th that present in the atmosphere, how many years old is the bone?

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