Give strengths and weakness of radiocarbon dating five each

Strengths

1. It can be applied anywhere in the world

2. It can be used to date past historical events

3. Radiocarbon is taken in by plants through photosynthesis

4. Absolute dating represents the absolute age of the sample before the present

5. Dating is possible as long as organic material is present

Weaknesses

1. The size of the archaeological sample is important; Larger samples are better.

2.  samples must be carefully collected and packed to avoid contamination by more recent carbon

3. It is not very accurate for recent samples

4. It is not infallable

5. Atmospheric carbon is not constant

Explanation:

Radiocarbon dating (additionally alluded to as carbon dating) is a technique for deciding the age of an item containing natural material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.

The technique was created in the last part of the 1940s at the College of Chicago by Willard Libby, who got the Nobel Prize in Science for his work in 1960. It depends on the way that radiocarbon is continually being made in the environment by the cooperation of astronomical beams with air nitrogen.

The subsequent Carbon consolidates with climatic oxygen to shape radioactive carbon dioxide, which is fused into plants by photosynthesis; creatures at that point procure Carbon by eating the plants. At the point when the creature or plant passes on, it quits trading carbon with its current circumstance, and from there on the measure of Carbon it contains starts to diminish as the Carbon goes through radioactive rot.

Estimating the measure of Carbon in an example from a dead plant or animal for example, a bit of wood or a section of bone, gives information that can be used to ascertain when the animal or plant died.

both include an amendment process.