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Carbon Dating

Definition: Carbon Dating

Carbon Dating

Noun

1. A chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14; believed to be reliable up to 40,000 years.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Carbon Dating

DomainDefinitions

Biology & Biotechnology

The determination of the age of old carbon materials by means of the measured content of radiocarbon. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

See:carbon-14 dating. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Carbon Dating

Synonyms: carbon-14 dating (n), radiocarbon dating (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Carbon Dating

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Books

  • Relic, Icon or Hoax?: Carbon Dating the Turin Shroud (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carbon Dating

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

carbon dating

95

radio carbon dating

5

accuracy carbon dating

4

carbon dating problem

4

accurate carbon dating

3
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Modern Translations: Carbon Dating

Language Translations for "carbon dating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

datim me anë të karbonit. (various references)

   

French

  

datation au carbone 14 (carbon-14 dating). (various references)

   

German

  

Radiokohlenstoff-Datierung (carbon-14 dating, radiocarbon dating), 14C-Datierung (carbon-14 dating, radiocarbon dating). (various references)

   

Italian

  

datazione al radiocarbonio (carbon-14 dating, radiocarbon dating). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arboncay atingday

   

Portuguese

  

dataçao por carbono 14 (carbon-14 dating, radiocarbon dating). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

datación radiocarbónica (carbon-14 dating, radiocarbon dating), datación por 14C (carbon-14 dating, radiocarbon dating). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kol-14-metoden. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

karbon miktarı ölçümüyle madde yaşının tesbiti. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Carbon Dating

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-g-i-n-n-o-r-t"

-1 letter: carbonating.

-2 letters: contraband.

-3 letters: abdicator, brocading, carbanion, carnation, cartoning, draconian, gradation, indagator, trainband.

-4 letters: aborning, aborting, abrading, adnation, adorning, agnation, antidora, arcading, boarding, borating, botanica, braconid, branding, carangid, cardigan, cinnabar, contagia, donating, ignorant, rainband, raincoat, taboring, tagboard, tornadic, trancing.

-5 letters: abandon, abating, aboding, acaroid, acrobat, actinon, adoring, agatoid, agnatic, airboat, andiron, antacid, anticar, argotic, atoning.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-d-g-i-n-n-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: decarbonating.

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Alternative Orthography: Carbon Dating


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 61 72 62 6F 6E      44 61 74 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01100001 01110010 01100010 01101111 01101110 00100000 01000100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#114 &#98 &#111 &#110 &#32 &#68 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 0072 0062 006F 006E      0044 0061 0074 0069 006E 0067

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3767846881802386786758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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