Radiation Dating Scanner

Radiation Dating Scanner
Type	Sensory Aid
Tech Level	TL–12
Cost	Cr500,0000
Size	25 liters
Weight	25 kg

Typical use of the Radiation Dating Scanner is the radioactive dating of organic and non-organic substances. Carbon-14 dating is limited to <50,000 years. Potassium-40 has a half-life of 1.3 billion years and will generally allow a scientist to determine the age of almost any previously living substance from most of known space. Other useful radioisotopes for radioactive dating include Uranium-235 with a half-life of 704 million years, Uranium-238 with a half-life of 4.5 billion years, and Rubidium-87 with a half-life of 49 billion years. This device is likely to be used by everyone from an archaeologist to a paleontologist. It will also be found in many xenologist labs, to aid in dating alien objects, as well as in the laboratory of anyone who is seriously studying Ancient artifacts.

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• Terry Carlino. "Laboratory Equipment", Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society Online September 13, 2005