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Noun

1. 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. 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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carbon datingcarbon-14 datingactivityage estimatesc14 datingcalibrated date

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non dating practicenonradiocarbon datingnonradiocarbon dating dataundated artifact