radiocarbon dating

English

Noun

radiocarbon dating (usually uncountable, plural radiocarbon datings)

(physics, archaeology, paleontology) 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.
Synonym: carbon dating

Translations

radiocarbon dating

Catalan: datació per radiocarboni f
Finnish: radiohiiliajoitus (fi)
Hungarian: radiokarbonos kormeghatározás (hu)

Irish: dátú radacarbóin m
Norman: dat'tie au tchèrbon f (Jersey)

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