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To: Physicist
The rebbutal of the radiocarbon dating is that the samples included deposited material on the surface - some of which was clearly of much more recent origin than the cloth. The cloth has been handled (and kissed) for hundreds of years - not to mention having water stains in locations from when it caught on fire.

Does not normal Corbon dating sampling take off the surface material before doing a dating - such as taking material from the inside of a tooth, or inside a skull, or from the center of a piece of wood?

49 posted on 10/10/2002 8:03:05 AM PDT by lepton
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To: lepton; sharktrager; ZULU; aShepard
Please consider #53.
54 posted on 10/10/2002 8:47:24 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: lepton
"Does not normal Corbon dating sampling take off the surface material before doing a dating - such as taking material from the inside of a tooth, or inside a skull, or from the center of a piece of wood?"

At the time the last carbon 14 sampling was done on the Shroud, the existence of bioplastic was unknown and the contamination produced by it not compensated for.

There are now techniques availble which can do this.
117 posted on 10/11/2002 8:27:52 AM PDT by ZULU
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