Timeline for Does the decay of Carbon-14 effect health in biological systems?
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| Jan 1, 2021 at 6:01 | vote | accept | Kantura | ||
| Jan 1, 2021 at 2:52 | comment | added | Ed V | See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis | |
| Jan 1, 2021 at 2:19 | comment | added | Nicolau Saker Neto | I think it's important to note that even though each beta decay event potentially destroys multiple biological molecules (including important ones such as segments of DNA strands), the events themselves are so comparatively rare that even something as trivial as body-temperature spontaneous thermal degradation likely poses a greater metabolic challenge/health hazard to the cell. | |
| Jan 1, 2021 at 2:07 | comment | added | Oscar Lanzi | You do know that only about one carbon in a trillion is C-14 and that during a typical human lifetime, only about 1% of all the C-14 we have decays. Right? | |
| Jan 1, 2021 at 2:01 | history | answered | MaxW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |