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The carbon in a certain ancient ax-handle is only 1/8--one-eighth--as radioactive as the carbon in living wood. The half-life of 14C is 6000 years. From these facts we can conclude that
A) the ax-handle was made from an unusual type of wood that was less radioactive than normal wood.
B) the ax-handle is about 12,000 years old.
C) the ax-handle is about 18,000 years old.
D) the natural carbon-radioactivity at the time the ax-handle was made was only one-eighth of what it is today.
E) the ax-handle is about 48,000 years old.
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