RADIOCARBON DATING

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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

Synonyms:

carbon-14 dating; carbon dating; radiocarbon dating

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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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