radiometric dating

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Led by experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers used radiometric dating to determine the age of the volcanic rock.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2024

After determining the materials in the sample and performing radiometric dating, the researchers concluded that the oldest crystals are about 4.46 billion years old.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2023

We can estimate their age with radiometric dating, and chemical analysis, which gives us a sense of when life began.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2023

This estimate is based on evidence from radiometric dating of meteorite material together with other substrate material from Earth and the moon.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

But even with radiometric dating, as decay measurements became known, it would be decades before we got within a billion years or so of Earth’s actual age.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson