Search Result for "carbon-14_dating":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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;
[syn: radiocarbon dating, carbon dating, carbon-14 dating]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

carbon-14 dating n 1: 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 [syn: radiocarbon dating, carbon dating, carbon-14 dating]