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As the atoms of a dead person are eventualy spread across nature, ending up eventualy making part of another living organism (or not), so my body atoms should have an history (all of them should have probably traveled in space...). What I'm asking is whether it would be possible to put a date on our atoms. For instance, would it be possible to take a sample of ones blood, or dead skin, or hair and put an average age on it ? Is there any method, technology that allows this ? I read a short tutorial on Carbon-14 and it didn't sound aplicable to this. Thank you for answering. Hope it doesn't sound silly...
Re: Would it be possible to estimate the age of my body atoms ?
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