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Radiocarbon dating
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Noun
- 1 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. uncountable, usually
- 2 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 wordnet
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