Carbon Fourteen

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a call that could affect the lives of millions of people always that you mister thursday that's why it was that my name is bill wilson i'm a physics instructor out here at the university you don't know me but things are happening out here that Mr. Thurston, you've got to fly to Los Angeles today.

Oh? Suppose you over some inducements, Wilson, such as why? Have you ever heard of carbon-14? Carbon-14, what about it? Would it mean anything to you if I said that a lot of it has been disappearing out here?

Go on, Wilson. I'm afraid to talk freely over the poem, Mr. Thurston, but I can tell you this. The carbon-14 can't? Well, what's wrong? What's happened? Hello, hello. What is it, Ken? Something wrong? Chief, what do you know about carbon-14?

Carbon-14? Let's see. A radioactive isotope that's... Yeah, that's right. One of the common elements they've been treating with active uranium. Sure, sure. I've been using mistraces, haven't they, to determine the cause of certain diseases?

Chief, they might hold the clue to curing cancer, tuberculosis, and a number of bacteriological diseases. Oh, no wonder they're called miracle workers of science. Yeah. We've been able to make them for a year or so and so far their use has been limited to this country.