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RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING

Dictionary entry overview: What does rubidium-strontium dating mean?

• RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING (noun)
The noun RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING has 1 sense:

1. 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

Familiarity information: RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING (noun)

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rubidium-strontium dating ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

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

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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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