radiocarbon dating
noun/ˌreɪdiəʊkɑːbən ˈdeɪtɪŋ/
/ˌreɪdiəʊkɑːrbən ˈdeɪtɪŋ/
[uncountable] (formal)- carbon dating (= a method of calculating the age of very old objects by measuring the amounts of different forms of carbon in them)Topics Scientific researchc2, Historyc2
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