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Counterfeit Wines
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Here are two unrelated facts. One: from the late 1940s through 1963, we tested atomic bombs in the atmosphere. Two: wine lovers are sometimes duped into exorbitant amounts for fake vintage bottles that weren't from the year they were supposedly grown. But Graham Jones at Australia's University of Adelaide thought he could use bomb information against counterfeit wines. Carbon dating works by comparing the amount of carbon 14, which is a less common and less stable form of carbon, to the more abundant carbon 12. For of years, the ratio between the two has been the same. But those two decades of atomic bomb tests increased the C-14 in the atmosphere. And as growing grapes absorb carbon dioxide, they take in trace amounts of the heavier carbon isotope—which eventually show up in the wine. The team checked C-14 levels in 20 Australian red wines with vintages from 1958 to 1997. They compared the wine's C-14 to C-14 in samples from the same years, and found a direct match—C-14 levels could give away the vintage year for each wine. So beware of wine scammers. Because even at the atomic level, in vino veritas.
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