And how do we know If something is millions of years old other than carbon dating and what is carbon dating
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They land on a tree, it is sticky with sap, they get stuck, more sap comes out of the tree from the same spot and eventually buries them. It is probably a slow and uncomfortable death, given the speed of sap.
Carbon slowly degrades over time. We know how fast it degrades. So, carbon dating involves looking at how degraded the carbon is in order to see how old it is. This isn’t the case for pure carbon, But there are certain types of molecule that do degrade at a set speed. A half life is the amount of time it takes for 50% of something to degrade or change.
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