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RADIOCARBON DATING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
carbon-14 dating; carbon dating; radiocarbon dating
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("radiocarbon dating" is a kind of...):
dating; geological dating (use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens)
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