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radioactive age

A Dictionary of Biology | 2004 | 265 words | Copyright

radioactive age The age of an archaeological or geological specimen as determined by a process that depends on a radioactive decay. See carbon dating; fission-track dating; potassium–argon dating; rubidium–strontium dating; uranium–lead dating.

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