Radiometric Dating: Carbon-14 and Uranium-238

When you read about the ages of certain ancient artifacts, or even the age of the earth itself, how do we know such numbers? How can we know that a fossil is precisely 250 million years old? The key technique here is radiometric dating. This is where we use our understanding of radioactive decay to measure the age of an object. How does this work, you ask? Watch and find out! Watch the whole General Chemistry playlist: Organic Chemistry Tutorials: Biochemistry Tutorials: Biology Tutorials: Classical Physics Tutorials: Modern Physics Tutorials: Mathematics Tutorials: EMAIL► ProfessorDaveExplains@ PATREON► Check out “Is This Wi-Fi Organic?“, my book on disarming pseudoscience! Amazo