Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

radiometric dating

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English

Syllables: ra-dio-met-ric -dat-ing
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of radioactive dating.

Example Sentences

"Perhaps the most significant achievement of radiometric dating over the past two decades has been to provide an absolute calibration, in years, for the traditional sedimentary time scale."
"Radiometric dating of Moon rocks and meteorites has enabled us to determine that the age of the Earth is approximately 4.6 billion years."
"For various reasons, we have discarded the radiometric datings obtained in minero-metallurgical regions of Huelva province:[…]."
"The first is radiometric dating of meteorites and rocks from the surface of the moon."

Inflected Forms

radiometric datings (plural)

Synonyms

radioactive dating

Questions

What does radiometric dating mean?: Synonym of radioactive dating.

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