Reply to post: Re: Ingenious. It's a way to do "Carbon dating" at the scale of a grain of sand.

Scientists are counting atoms to figure out when Mars last had volcanoes

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Re: Ingenious. It's a way to do "Carbon dating" at the scale of a grain of sand.

Well "technically" it's:

Uranium 238 to Thorium 234 to Protactinium 234 to Uranium 234 to Thorium 230 to Radium 226 to Radon 222 to Polonium 218 to Lead 214.

not finished, Lead 214 is radioactive.

Then to Bismuth 214 to Polonium 214 to Lead 210 to Bismuth 210 to Polonium 210 and finally to the stable Lead 206.

There are different chains if you start with Uranium 233 or 235

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