radiometric dating
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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
Through the use of radiometric dating, scientists can study the age of fossils or other remains of extinct organisms to understand how organisms have evolved from earlier species.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In 2007, researchers published a date of 160,000 years based on radiometric dating of a human tooth.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 7, 2017
Often he had to borrow or patch together equipment in order to pursue his radiometric dating of rocks.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
