Radiocarbon & Turin Shroud - Periodic Table of Videos

2010-07-20

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We discuss the famed Turin Shroud in a chemistry context, including how radiocarbon dating has famously been used on the religious relic. More links in description below ↓↓↓

Correction: It's a proton and electron COMBINING to create C14... I made the poor Professor stand in the Italian sun for so long waiting for the right light conditions that I may have temporarily fried his brain. Correction is included as an annotaion.

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