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radioactive dating

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English

Syllables
ra-dioac-tive -dat-ing
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The process of determining the age of a material by estimating the amount of radioactive decay of one or more radioisotopes present in the material when it was formed.

Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

radioactive datings (plural)

Synonyms

radiometric dating

Questions

What does radioactive dating mean?
The process of determining the age of a material by estimating the amount of radioactive decay of one or more radioisotopes present in the material when it was formed.

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