radioactive dating

noun

radioactive dating

noun
1

Usually The process of determining the age of a material by estimating the amount of radioactive decay of one or more radioisotopes present in the material when it was formed.

Hyponyms
carbon dating, carbon-14 dating, C-14 dating, radiocarbon dating

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