Definitions for radiocarbon dating
ra·dio·car·bon dat·ing

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1. radiocarbon dating, carbon dating, carbon-14 datingnoun

   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

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1. radiocarbon datingnoun

   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.

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1. Radiocarbon dating

   Radiocarbon dating is a technique that uses the decay of carbon-14 to estimate the age of organic materials, such as wood and leather, up to about 58,000 to 62,000 years. Carbon dating was presented to the world by Willard Libby in 1949, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Since its introduction it has been used to date many well-known items, including samples of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Shroud of Turin, enough Egyptian artifacts to supply a chronology of Dynastic Egypt, and Ötzi the Iceman. The dating method is based on the fact that carbon is found in various forms, including the main stable isotope and an unstable isotope. Through photosynthesis, plants absorb both forms from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. When an organism dies, it contains a ratio of =14 C to =12 C, but, as the =14 C decays with no possibility of replenishment, the ratio decreases at a regular rate. The measurement of =14 C decay provides an indication of the age of any carbon-based material. However, over time there are small fluctuations in the ratio of =14 C to =12 C in the atmosphere, fluctuations that have been noted in natural records of the past, such as sequences of tree rings and cave deposits. These records allow for the fine-tuning, or calibration, of the indications derived from measuring the carbon ratio. A raw radiocarbon age, once calibrated, yields a calendar date.

How to pronounce radiocarbon dating?

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   Libby

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How to say radiocarbon dating in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of radiocarbon dating in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of radiocarbon dating in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of radiocarbon dating in a Sentence

1. Stanley Ambrose:

   This allowed us to trace monthly and seasonal changes in the sloth's diet and climate for the first time, and also to select the best part of the tooth for reliable radiocarbon dating.

2. Shaul Hurwitz:

   When I submitted the samples for radiocarbon dating I didnt know whether they would be hundreds or thousands of years old, it was an aha! moment when they all clustered within a hundred-year period in the 13th and 14th centuries.

3. Frederic Gleach:

   I'm reluctant to sacrifice the material in order to do that much archaeological work, in particular, radiocarbon dating is destructive by nature... Once you have burned the sample to run radiocarbon dating, it's gone.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=radiocarbon dating
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_Dating
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=radiocarbon dating