radiocarbon dating

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Noun

radiocarbon dating (usually uncountable, plural radiocarbon datings)

  1. (physics, archaeology, paleontology) A method of estimating the age of an artifact or biological vestige based on the relative amounts of the different isotopes of carbon present in a sample.
    Synonym: carbon dating

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