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The Shroud of Turin: 1988 and 2005 Experiment

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The experiment also raised questions about whether or not there was a _____ to discredit the Holy Shroud in 1988.
After reviewing the credentials of many laboratories that utilized the accelerated mass spectrometer to perform the C-14 test, the commission selected seven _____.
After the 2005 experiment, the piece of the corner taken for experimentation was believed to contained a mixture of 1st and ____ century cloth.
Chemist who published a paper in January 2005 that challenged the results of the 1988 Carbon dating experiment.
To repair the shroud, the ends of the original cloth were unraveled and ____ together and interwoven with the new cloth. That made it so there was old and new material on both sides of the repair.
Such contaminants as _____(aloe and myrrh), sweat, blood, saliva, candle wax, and finger oils were found on the shroud.
This is the kind of pattern that the shroud was weaved in. It did not match the section that was taken for experimentation.
Name of the reinforcing cloth stitched to the back of the shroud by nuns.
After experimenting further on the shroud sample, Rogers found ___dyes and pigments in the carbon-dating samples.
Carbon dating uses Carbon 12 and Carbon 14 isotopes to determine the ___ or date of organic matter.
Unfortunately, the press simply ignored the body of evidence and never questioned the ____ of the Carbon-14 test.
The original linen was repaired in the 16th Century with a completely different cotton thread and was ____ to perfectly match the original linen.
Prior to the 1880s, the Carbon-14 test required a relatively ___ piece of cloth.
The official reports stated that the Shroud of Turin was ____ between 1260 and 1390 AD.
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The scientists who conducted the carbon-14 test were very concerned with the potential that ____ elements might affect the test on the shroud.
They divided samples into ____ parts; three were given to the laboratories and one was kept separately by the Vatican scientific adviser.
A piece of cloth 3/8 of an inch by 2 1/4 inches was cut in the presence of Cardinal ___.
The ____ _____ stated on August 27, 1988 that Oxford scientists had leaked the results.
In addition to taking a piece of the corner of the shroud, scientists were able to take 32 adhesive ____ samples to enable direct chemical testing on recovered linen fibers.
French Poor Clare nuns repaired the shroud by adding 16 ____.
This should have been easy to detect if the shroud was produced between 1260 and 1390.
The shroud would have retained 37% of this if the carbon dating results from the 1988 experiment were correct.
The carbon-14 test was performed on July 29, 1988 at ____ as well as the Federal Polytechnic Institute of Technology of Zurich and the University of Arizona.
Ray Rogers was originally _____ by the fact that people were saying the carbon dating date could be wrong, since he did detailed research on it himself.
Without knowing they were examining the Shroud of Turin, these experts said that the particular section of the shroud looked rewoven.
The results provide conclusive evidence that the linen of the Shroud of Turin is _____ .