radiocarbon dating
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The fact that none of the ship's wood remained meant techniques like radiocarbon dating - which measures a form of carbon in organic materials - could not be used to determine its age.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Researchers supplied the model with a 1,000-year earthquake history reconstructed from geological evidence, including radiocarbon dating, tree ring records, and historical observations of ground ruptures.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
The team used radiocarbon dating, which looks at how a special form of carbon changes over time, to work out that the structure was 5,000 years old.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
To confirm this idea, the team used radiocarbon dating on this core and others collected near Cape Mendocino, where the two fault systems meet.
From Science Daily ● May 2, 2026
Willard Libby was in the process of inventing radiocarbon dating, allowing scientists to get an accurate reading of the age of bones and other organic remains, something they had never been able to do before.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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