radioactive dating

English

Noun

radioactive dating (usually uncountable, plural radioactive datings)

1. The process of determining the age of a material by estimating the amount of radioactive decay of one or more radioisotopes present in the material when it was formed.

   Synonym: radiometric dating

Hyponyms

• carbon dating
• carbon-14 dating
• C-14 dating
• radiocarbon dating

Translations

process of determining age by estimating radioactive decay

• Finnish: radioaktiivinen iänmääritys
• German: radiometrische Datierung f, radioaktive Datierung f, Radiodatierung f
• Italian: datazione radiometrica f, radiodatazione f
• Polish: datowanie izotopowe n, datowanie promieniotwórcze n, radiodatowanie n, radiochronologia f

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: radiometrische datering (nl) f

Further reading

• Uranium–lead dating on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Uranium–thorium dating on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lead–lead dating on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Potassium–argon dating on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Radiocarbon dating on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Decay chain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia