Yes, we should be very suspicious of the bone\'s authenticity. This is mainly because carbon dating cannot be used to determine the age of dinosaur bones. Radiocarbon dating measures the life of the isotope of carbon which is C-14. This isotope decays with time. The half life of C-14 isotope is around 5,730 years, so it can be effectively used to determine ages of samples of around 50,000 years old and not of older samples. And dinosaur bones are around million years old and their ages cannot be determined by Carbon dating. To determine ages of rock samples of million years old, we can use radioactive dating of other isotopes that have a very long half-life. Some of these isotopes are of Uranium (U-235 and U-238) and Potassium (K-40), which have half-life of more than a million years but even these isotopes are not found in the bones of dinosaurs or even in the sedimentary rocks containing these dinosaur bones. The dating of these dinosaur fossils is therefore done in a much more complex way. We need to find igneous rocks which are buried as deep as the sedimentary rocks containing dinosaur fossils. These igneous rocks do contain uranium isotopes and their ages can be found by radioactive dating, and can give a key to the ages of dinosaur bones. Thus, we can safely say that Carbon dating cannot be used to date dinosaur bones. One more reason to doubt the claims of the seller is that dinosaurs first appeared in the \"Triassic period\", roughly 225 million years ago. So how could a dinosaur bone be 400 million years old. Solution Yes, we should be very suspicious of the bone\'s authenticity. This is mainly because carbon dating cannot be used to determine the age of dinosaur bones. Radiocarbon dating measures the life of the isotope of carbon which is C-14. This isotope decays with time. The half life of C-14 isotope is around 5,730 years, so it can be effectively used to determine ages of samples of around 50,000 years old and not of older samples. And dinosaur bones are around million years old and their ages cannot be determined by Carbon dating. To determine ages of rock samples of million years old, we can use radioactive dating of other isotopes that have a very long half-life. Some of these isotopes are of Uranium (U-235 and U-238) and Potassium (K-40), which have half-life of more than a million years but even these isotopes are not found in the bones of dinosaurs or even in the sedimentary rocks containing these dinosaur bones. The dating of these dinosaur fossils is therefore done in a much more complex way. We need to find igneous rocks which are buried as deep as the sedimentary rocks containing dinosaur fossils. These igneous rocks do contain uranium isotopes and their ages can be found by radioactive dating, and can give a key to the ages of dinosaur bones. Thus, we can safely say that Carbon dating cannot be used to date dinosaur bones. One more reason to doubt the claims of the seller is that dinosaurs first appeared in the \"Tr.

1. Yes, we should be very suspicious of the bone's authenticity. This is mainly because carbon
dating cannot be used to determine the age of dinosaur bones. Radiocarbon dating measures the
life of the isotope of carbon which is C-14. This isotope decays with time. The half life of C-14
isotope is around 5,730 years, so it can be effectively used to determine ages of samples of
around 50,000 years old and not of older samples. And dinosaur bones are around million years
old and their ages cannot be determined by Carbon dating. To determine ages of rock samples of
million years old, we can use radioactive dating of other isotopes that have a very long half-life.
Some of these isotopes are of Uranium (U-235 and U-238) and Potassium (K-40), which have
half-life of more than a million years but even these isotopes are not found in the bones of
dinosaurs or even in the sedimentary rocks containing these dinosaur bones. The dating of these
dinosaur fossils is therefore done in a much more complex way. We need to find igneous rocks
which are buried as deep as the sedimentary rocks containing dinosaur fossils. These igneous
rocks do contain uranium isotopes and their ages can be found by radioactive dating, and can
give a key to the ages of dinosaur bones. Thus, we can safely say that Carbon dating cannot be
used to date dinosaur bones.
One more reason to doubt the claims of the seller is that dinosaurs first appeared in the "Triassic
period", roughly 225 million years ago. So how could a dinosaur bone be 400 million years old.
Solution
Yes, we should be very suspicious of the bone's authenticity. This is mainly because carbon
dating cannot be used to determine the age of dinosaur bones. Radiocarbon dating measures the
life of the isotope of carbon which is C-14. This isotope decays with time. The half life of C-14
isotope is around 5,730 years, so it can be effectively used to determine ages of samples of
around 50,000 years old and not of older samples. And dinosaur bones are around million years
old and their ages cannot be determined by Carbon dating. To determine ages of rock samples of
million years old, we can use radioactive dating of other isotopes that have a very long half-life.
Some of these isotopes are of Uranium (U-235 and U-238) and Potassium (K-40), which have
half-life of more than a million years but even these isotopes are not found in the bones of
dinosaurs or even in the sedimentary rocks containing these dinosaur bones. The dating of these
dinosaur fossils is therefore done in a much more complex way. We need to find igneous rocks
which are buried as deep as the sedimentary rocks containing dinosaur fossils. These igneous
rocks do contain uranium isotopes and their ages can be found by radioactive dating, and can
give a key to the ages of dinosaur bones. Thus, we can safely say that Carbon dating cannot be
used to date dinosaur bones.

2. One more reason to doubt the claims of the seller is that dinosaurs first appeared in the "Triassic
period", roughly 225 million years ago. So how could a dinosaur bone be 400 million years old.