Carbon dating is measuring age by the decay of a substance in remains. Send it for carbon dating.
It only works on things that were once alive and only back about fifty thousand years. Carbon dating is why so much archaeology had to be rewritten in the 1950s.
1nouncarbon datingMeasuring age by the decay of a substance in remains.
“Carbon dating put the timber three centuries earlier than expected.”
carbon dating is a method.
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