Synonyms for radiocarbon dating
ra·dio·car·bon dat·ing

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1. radiocarbon datingnoun

   Synonyms:
   carbon dating

2. radiocarbon datingnoun

   A method of estimating the age of an artifact or biological vestige based on the relative amounts of the different isotopes of carbon present in a sample.

   Synonyms:
   carbon dating

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1. radiocarbon dating, carbon dating, carbon-14 datingnoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   carbon dating, carbon-14 dating

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1. Stanley Ambrose:

   This allowed us to trace monthly and seasonal changes in the sloth's diet and climate for the first time, and also to select the best part of the tooth for reliable radiocarbon dating.

2. Frederic Gleach:

   I'm reluctant to sacrifice the material in order to do that much archaeological work, in particular, radiocarbon dating is destructive by nature... Once you have burned the sample to run radiocarbon dating, it's gone.

3. Shaul Hurwitz:

   When I submitted the samples for radiocarbon dating I didnt know whether they would be hundreds or thousands of years old, it was an aha! moment when they all clustered within a hundred-year period in the 13th and 14th centuries.