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Subject: Would it be possible to estimate the age of my body atoms ?

Date: Fri Feb 23 16:58:11 2001
Posted by 8-ball
Grade level: undergrad School: No school entered.
City: No city entered. State/Province: No state entered. Country: Portugal
Area of science: Chemistry
ID: 982965491.Ch
Message:

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...


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