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RADIOCARBON DATING

Dictionary entry overview: What does radiocarbon dating mean?

• RADIOCARBON DATING (noun)
The noun RADIOCARBON DATING has 1 sense:

1. 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

Familiarity information: RADIOCARBON DATING used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RADIOCARBON DATING (noun)

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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

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Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

carbon dating; carbon-14 dating; radiocarbon dating

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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