carbon dating

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Noun carbon dating has 1 sense

radiocarbon dating, carbon dating, carbon-14 dating - 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
--₁ is a kind of dating, geological dating

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Carbon Dating

Noun

The process of estimating the age of ancient artifacts or fossils by measuring the levels of radioactive carbon-14 remaining in them.

Example sentence: Scientists used carbon dating to determine that the ancient bone belonged to a species that lived over 10,000 years ago.

Verb

The act of using carbon dating to estimate the age of objects or materials.

Example sentence: The archaeologist carbon-dated the pottery to accurately establish its historical significance.

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