Which is more prevalent in the food we eat: carbon-12 or carbon-14?

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Franco Knox

28 November, 22:58

Which is more prevalent in the food we eat: carbon-12 or carbon-14?

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Erica Adams · Answer 1

I think the more prevalent in the food we eat is Carbon-12 which is present in Most of the food we ingest. Both carbon-12 and carbon-14 are isotopes of carbon, they differ in the number of neutrons in each atom. Because of the different number of neutrons, carbon-12 and carbon-14 differ with respect to radioactivity. Carbon-12 is a stable isotope but carbon-14 undergoes radioactive decay.