Nature's clocks : how scientists measure the age of almost everything /
Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting, writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to de...
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Main Author: | Macdougall, J. D., 1944- |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2008.
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
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