Examples carbon dating used

All three kinds of radiation are potentially hazardous to living tissue, but some more than others, as will be explained later on.

Then, someone with a Geiger-Muller tube above-ground will measure the radiation given off.This can occur because light travels at roughly 75% its typical speed when in water and beta radiation can, therefore, exceed this speed without breaking the speed of light.Gamma rays are high frequency, extremely-short-wavelength electromagnetic waves with no mass and no charge.All living cells take up carbon-14, whether from photosynthesis or eating other living cells.When a living cell dies, it stops taking in carbon-14, because it stops photosynthesising or eating, and then gradually over time the carbon-14 decays and is no longer found in the tissue. The half-life of carbon-14 (the time in which it takes from the radiation emitted from the source to be halved) works out to be 5,730 years.