Sediment deposition and Animal waste
Because you will focus past ("overshoot") your specimen. (Like using a race car as a shopping cart: it's too fast, and you'll fly past the cereal and never even see it before you realize you need to stop.) Also: you risk crushing the slide and objective against each other (on older or cheaper scopes), and that would be a costly (and embarrassing) mistake.
Oxygen-16 and Carbon-12 are stableisotopes of elements O and C respectively. Hence, they do not have half-lives. But Carbon-14 andUranium-238 are radioactive isotopes. Among them Carbon-14 has relatively short half-life as about 5730 years while Uranium-238 has a long half-life as about 4.5 billion years.
Answer is. uranium-238