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POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Geological dating that relies on the proportions of radioactive potassium in a rock sample and its decay product, argon
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Hypernyms ("potassium-argon dating" is a kind of...):
dating; geological dating (use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens)