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CARBON DATING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does carbon dating mean?
• CARBON DATING (noun)
The noun CARBON DATING has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: CARBON DATING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
carbon-14 dating; carbon dating; radiocarbon dating
Hypernyms ("carbon dating" is a kind of...):
dating; geological dating (use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens)
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