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Noun: radiocarbon dating
  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
    - carbon dating, carbon-14 dating

Type of: dating, geological dating

Encyclopedia: Radiocarbon dating

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