Which statement about radiometric dating is true?
A) Radioactive decay of 14C is balanced by its production from neutrons reacting with 14N in the upper atmosphere.
B) Dead organisms continue to exchange carbon compounds with the environment.
C) Carbon dating can be used to date organisms more than a million years old.
D) The half-life of 14C is less than 1,000 years.
E) Radiometric dating can only provide relative,and not absolute,ages of rocks.
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