Multiple Choice
Both radiocarbon and potassium-argon dating share one specific problem that makes these methods difficult to use.What is that problem?
A) Both have short half-lives.
B) Both have parents that are too rare to measure accurately.
C) The half-lives of both are poorly known.
D) Both produce daughters that are in a gaseous state.
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