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Definition carbon dating in British English

carbon dating noun

[uncountable] noun
/ˌkɑː(r)bən ˈdeɪtɪŋ/
1

a method of finding out the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains

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Definition carbon dating in British English