that despite being a dwarf, Anomochilus monticola is the largest species in its genus? that the economy of Tolkien's Middle-earth has been described as a mix of feudalism and capitalism, with one scholar even suggesting it had communist elements? that Haley and Hanna Cavinder (pictured) made over US$1 million in student athlete compensation in the year after the National Collegiate Athletic Association legalized the monetization of personality rights? Libby received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960. Accelerator mass spectrometry (apparatus pictured) is the standard method used, which allows minute samples. The amount of radiocarbon in the atmosphere was reduced starting from the late 19th century by fossil fuels, which contain little radiocarbon, but nuclear weapons testing almost doubled levels by around 1965. Half of the radiocarbon decays every 5,730 years the oldest dates that can be reliably estimated are around 50,000 years ago. After death, they stop exchanging carbon with the environment. Plants take in radiocarbon through photosynthesis, and animals eat the plants. Radiocarbon is constantly created in the atmosphere, when cosmic rays create free neutrons that hit nitrogen. Invented by Willard Libby in the late 1940s, it soon became a standard tool for archaeologists. Radiocarbon dating is used to determine the age of carbon-bearing material by measuring its levels of radiocarbon, the radioactive isotope carbon-14. Accelerator mass spectrometer used for radiocarbon dating
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