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Dating teeth

Teeth can endure for thousands of years without decay
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Archaeologists can derive useful information from the analysis of stable isotopes in teeth. At the heart of the measurements lies mass spectrometry, in which the electromagnetic force acting on charged particles as they move through a magnetic field produces circular motion.

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