what are the two versatile nature of carbon? explain

Carbon dating is one, measure the amount of carbon 14 in a dateable object and that will tell you how old it is by the amount of Nitrogen. Carbon has a half-life of 5300years give or take 70something.

1 measure the amount of carbon 14 in the organism or object

2 determine the original amount that was there

3 determine the half-life of the original amount

4 now its just simple math. subtract x (original half-life) from y (current half life)

X-y=age