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RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Geological dating based on the proportions of radioactive rubidium into its decay product strontium; radioactive rubidium has a half-life of 47,000,000,000 years
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("rubidium-strontium dating" is a kind of...):
dating; geological dating (use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens)
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