Radiocarbon dating
Esquema
Jerarquía
analysis and testing techniques > measuring > dating (measuring)
Descripción
Method of dating, based on the known half-life of carbon-14, by measuring the amount of low-level radioactivity of carbon remaining in ancient and dead material of organic origin and thus determining when a plant or animal had died.
URI original del concepto
Otros términos
- radiokoolstofdatering [nl]
- datación por radiocarbono [es]
- C-14 dating [en]
- carbon-14 dating [en]
- carbon dating [en]
- dating, C-14 [en]
- dating, carbon-14 [en]
- dating, radiocarbon [en]
- datación por carbono 14 [es]