carboon 14 radioactive reaction rate

[programAngel]

What are the factor that influence the rate of the reaction in which decays carboon 14 into nitrogen-14?

 

Does heat or radiation can have impact on the rate.

[swansont]

What are the factor that influence the rate of the reaction in which decays carboon 14 into nitrogen-14?

 

Does heat or radiation can have impact on the rate.

 

There aren't any that we know of.

[Enthalpy]

Under the "normal" conditions, no influence at all.

 

Then, you can use heavy means. If you bombard ¹⁴C with 10TeV protons it will break, but (*) that's cheating (**) it's not radioactivity (***) any nuclide would break.

 

Somewhere in the middle:

- One beta minus emitter (forgotten which, the experiment wasn't with ¹⁴C) decays much faster if the atom is completely stripped from its electrons. The emitted electron jumps to the then available 1s orbital, through a tunnel length and depth more favourable than to vacuum.

- An absorbed gamma ray that excites ¹⁴C will necessarily change the decay rate. Half-cheating again, as people consider the excited nuclide is no ¹⁴C any more.

 

Not at beta emission, but electron capture: one paper claimed an increase in electron capture rate at sonoluminescence, but this has never been observed by the other teams and is widely considered a mistake.

[programAngel]

Under the "normal" conditions, no influence at all.

 

Then, you can use heavy means. If you bombard ¹⁴C with 10TeV protons it will break, but (*) that's cheating (**) it's not radioactivity (***) any nuclide would break.

 

Somewhere in the middle:

- One beta minus emitter (forgotten which, the experiment wasn't with ¹⁴C) decays much faster if the atom is completely stripped from its electrons. The emitted electron jumps to the then available 1s orbital, through a tunnel length and depth more favourable than to vacuum.

- An absorbed gamma ray that excites ¹⁴C will necessarily change the decay rate. Half-cheating again, as people consider the excited nuclide is no ¹⁴C any more.

 

Not at beta emission, but electron capture: one paper claimed an increase in electron capture rate at sonoluminescence, but this has never been observed by the other teams and is widely considered a mistake.

Thanks for the replies.

 

I had an argue with religious Jew about the age of Earth.

He told me that carbon 14 dating can be cheated.

 

I guess from the method you suggested it will be very easy to discover manipulation.

 

However Suess effect can indeed influence the accuracy of the radioactive dating.

[swansont]

Thanks for the replies.

 

I had an argue with religious Jew about the age of Earth.

He told me that carbon 14 dating can be cheated.

 

I guess from the method you suggested it will be very easy to discover manipulation.

 

However Suess effect can indeed influence the accuracy of the radioactive dating.

Radiocarbon dating is pretty useless for determining the age of the earth. The half-life is 5730 years which means it's not going to tell you the age of items that are millions of years old, much less billions. Its use is also limited to a subset of living creatures.

[John Cuthber]

Either God is deliberately misleading us or "young earthers" can't count (tree rings)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrochronology