POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING

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Meaning:

Geological dating that relies on the proportions of radioactive potassium in a rock sample and its decay product, argon

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Hypernyms ("potassium-argon dating" is a kind of...):

dating; geological dating (use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens)

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