Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

geochronometer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: geochronome-ter
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several techniques used to measure the age of rock, especially any technique of radiometric dating, the measuring of the relative abundance of particular radioactive or radiogenic isotopes in order to evaluate the progress of radioactive decay.

noun

Any of several crystalline minerals that remain stable over geologic time and that when formed contained radioisotopes whose abundance relative to their decay products can be measured to calculate the age of the crystal (and thus that of the surrounding rock).

Example Sentences

"Application of the K-Ca geochronometer therefore is best suited to minerals with high K/Ca ratios (Marshall & DePaolo, 1982) and K-bearing clay materials might appear to be amenable to its use."
"Other geochronometers like ^{₈₇}Rb-\!^{₈₇}Sr, ^{₁₄₇}Sm-\!^{₁₄₃}Nd, or ^{₁₈₇}Re-\!^{₁₈₇}Os are also successfully applied to dating ore deposits and magmatic, metamorphic, or sedimentary processes."
"K-bearing minerals such as biotite, sanidine, plagioclase, and hornblende are geochronometers representative of the time of their crystallization once they were erupted from a volcano, and then transported into marine sedimentary basins."

Etymology

Etymology tree Pre-Greek der. Proto-Hellenic *gayader. Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip. Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-) Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der. English geo- English chronometer English geochronometer From geo- + chronometer.

Inflected Forms

geochronometers (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

chronometer geochronometry geochronology

Questions

What does geochronometer mean?: Any of several techniques used to measure the age of rock, especially any technique of radiometric dating, the measuring of the relative abundance of particular radioactive or radiogenic isotopes in order to evaluate the progress of radioactive decay.
Where does geochronometer come from?: Etymology tree Pre-Greek der. Proto-Hellenic *gayader. Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip. Ancient Greek γῆ (gê) Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-) Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der. English geo- English chronometer English geochronometer From geo- + chronometer.

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