carbon-date
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carbon-date (third-person singular simple present carbon-dates, present participle carbon-dating, simple past and past participle carbon-dated)
- To gauge the age of an organic material by comparing the ratio of carbon isotopes.
- After carbon-dating the artifact, the archaeologist determined that it was of late bronze age manufacture.
