| NOUN | act | geological dating, dating | use of chemical analysis to estimate / estimate the age of geological specimens |
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| Meaning | Use of chemical analysis to estimate / estimate the age of geological specimens. | |
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| Synonym | dating | |
| Narrower | potassium-argon dating | geological dating that relies on the proportions of radioactive potassium in a rock sample and its decay product, argon |
| 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 |
| Spanish | cita, datación, fechado | |
| Catalan | datació | |
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