Meaning | Use of chemical analysis to estimate / estimate the age of geological specimens. |
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Synonym | geological dating |
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Narrower | potassium-argon dating | geological dating that relies on the proportions of radioactive potassium in a rock sample and its decay product, argon |
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radiocarbon dating, carbon dating, carbon-14 dating | A chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14 |
rubidium-strontium dating | geological dating based on the proportions of radioactive rubidium into its decay product strontium |
Broader | chemical analysis, qualitative analysis | The act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements |
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Spanish | cita, datación, fechado |
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Catalan | datació |
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Verbs | date | assign a date / date / date to |
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