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- noun
Radiocarbon dating .
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- noun a chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14; believed to be reliable up to 40,000 years
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treeseed commented on the word carbon dating
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
noun
Date: 1951
: the determination of the age of old material (as an archaeological or paleontological specimen) by means of the content of carbon
February 5, 2008
bilby commented on the word carbon dating
How does one lonely carbon find another? Do they use Tinder these days?
May 13, 2016