We discuss the famed Turin Shroud in a chemistry context, including how radiocarbon dating has famously been used on the religious relic. More links in description below ↓↓↓ Correction: It's a proton and electron COMBINING to create C14... I made the poor Professor stand in the Italian sun for so long waiting for the right light conditions that I may have temporarily fried his brain. Correction is included as an annotaion. Our trip to Turin supported by http://www.cost.esf.org/ Support Periodic Videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/periodicvideos A video on every element: http://bit.ly/118elements More at http://www.periodicvideos.com/ Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/periodicvideos And on Twitter at http://twitter.com/periodicvideos From the School of Chemistry at The University of Nottingham: http://bit.ly/NottChem Periodic Videos films are by video journalist Brady Haran: http://www.bradyharanblog.com Join Brady's mailing list for updates and extra stuff --- http://eepurl.com/YdjL9