Definition of Carbon-14 dating

1. Noun. 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.

Exact synonyms: Carbon Dating, Radiocarbon Dating
Generic synonyms: Dating, Geological Dating

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carbon-14 Dating

carbolizing
carboluria
carbomer
carbomers
carbometallation
carbometallations
carbomethoxy
carbometry
carbomycin
carbomycin 3-O-acetyltransferase
carbon
carbon-11
carbon-12
carbon-13
carbon-14
carbon-14 dating (current term)
carbon-based
carbon-carbon double bond isomerases
carbon-carbon ligases
carbon-carbon lyases
carbon-copy
carbon-date
carbon-dated
carbon-dates
carbon-dating
carbon-ferrous
carbon-intensive
carbon-neutral
carbon-nitrogen-oxygen cycle
carbon-nitrogen ligases

Literary usage of Carbon-14 dating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United Arab Emirates: A New Perspective by Ibrahim Abed, Peter Hellyer (2001)
"Carbon 14 dating of burnt material retrieved from the monastery indicates occupation to the mid-seventh century AD which matches the sixth to seventh ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"In order to get their correlations, the investigators had to do some involved sleuthing, based on lithology, organic remains, carbon-14 dating, elevation, ..."

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