radioactive dating
another term for radiometric dating
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How to use radioactive dating in a sentence
radioactive dating does show that the Earth is billions and not thousands of years old, refuting young-Earth creationism.
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Cultural definitions for radioactive dating
A process for determining the age of an object by measuring the amount of a given radioactive material it contains. If one knows how much of this radioactive material was present initially in the object (by determining how much of the material has decayed), and one knows the half-life of the material, one can deduce the age of the object.
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