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radiocarbon

[ UK /ɹˌe‍ɪdɪə‍ʊkˈɑːbən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a radioactive isotope of carbon

How To Use radiocarbon In A Sentence

  • 'Traditional methods of dating the pigments, such as radiocarbon, are destructive to the paintings, and the samples are prone to contamination. Signs of the Times
  • Everyone assumes that dates that follow the word "radiocarbon" are accurate, precise and sure. Signs of the Times
  • Three different laboratories produced radiocarbon dates for animal bones and charcoal at the four caves.
  • Radiocarbon determinations from this type of environment must be analysed with care because of the variable sources of carbon available to the plants which form the gyttja.
  • It is also possible that the seriation does not accurately reflect the temporal duration of zone decorations or that the radiocarbon dates from Bluegrass do not accurately reflect the span of occupation of the site.
  • The process has a huge advantage over standard methods such as radiocarbon dating, which is plagued by large error ranges, Kirch said. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • In chronological terms, Paviland is early in the European series of burials and is actually the earliest with a firm radiocarbon date measured directly on human bone.
  • To correct this error radiocarbon dates are calibrated by studying the difference between radiocarbon dates and tree-ring dates.
  • The Bayesian skyline plot suggests that the bison species went through a severe bottleneck around 10,000 radiocarbon years ago, coincident with the time when many North American megafaunal species went extinct.
  • These data were compared with the distribution of radiocarbon in free glucose and fructose isolated from the same sample.
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