carbon-date
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of carbon-date
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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I don’t personally think that you need to carbon-date every incident, or that everything needs to be shoved in an evidence bag and waved in the other person’s face.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2022
A small amount of carbon-14 was also added so future scientists would be able to carbon-date the package from the past.
From Salon ● May 28, 2022
When did the modern four-day reality Punch & Judy big-ticket hearing really start, in your view, or, you can’t carbon-date it like that?
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2017
I’ve noticed that some of the most devoted readers tend to carbon-date themselves by editor.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2015
Specific references instantly carbon-date those films, rendering them ever more unintelligible to future viewers.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2010
The Indonesian head has been carbon-dated to between 800 BC and 750 BC.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
Each one, now, serves as a kind of time capsule, a carbon-dated relic from a specific period, capturing in amber each stage of our understanding of what, precisely, soccer has become.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
A more precise dating technique would involving taking soil samples and taking them to a laboratory to have them carbon-dated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2021
It had been carbon-dated, he said, to AD201, plus or minus a century.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2020
Stone tools, which many archaeologists regard as the most important artifacts, have no organic carbon and therefore cannot be carbon-dated.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
He and Dr Burns, along with their colleagues, verified the ages of the tracks by carbon-dating seeds extracted from cores of this ancient, compressed mud.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2022
Scientists plan to conduct DNA and carbon-dating tests.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 20, 2022
Using a technique called carbon-dating, the researchers discovered that fragments of dead animals they collected were up to 5,800 years old.
From The Verge ● Dec. 29, 2021
Initially mistaken for a modern-day mountaineer killed in an accident, Ötzi the Iceman, as he came to be called, was shown through carbon-dating to have died about 5,300 years ago.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
Much of the work occurred at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, which in 1958 established the world’s first major archaeological carbon-dating laboratory.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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