| English Dictionary |
CARBON-14 DATING
Dictionary entry overview: What does carbon-14 dating mean?
• CARBON-14 DATING (noun)
The noun CARBON-14 DATING has 1 sense:
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
Familiarity information: CARBON-14 DATING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
carbon-14 dating; carbon dating; radiocarbon dating
Hypernyms ("carbon-14 dating" is a kind of...):
dating; geological dating (use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens)
Context examples
Scientists used ancient DNA analyses and carbon-14 dating to demonstrate the past existence of a unique population of Icelandic walrus that went extinct shortly after Norse settlement some 1,100 years ago.
(Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement, National Science Foundation)
In a new study, researchers analyzed ancient and contemporary DNA along with carbon-14 dating of walrus remains, supplemented with detailed studies of the remains' locations, place names and references to walrus-hunting in Icelandic Medieval literature, including the Icelandic Sagas.
(Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement, National Science Foundation)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Each person is his own judge." (Native American proverb, Shawnee)
"The one-eyed person is a beauty in the country of the blind." (Arabic proverb)
"Let sleeping dogs lie." (Dutch proverb)