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carbon-14 dating

(Archaeology) another name for radiocarbon dating

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radiocar′bon dat`ing

determination of the age of objects of organic origin by measurement of their radiocarbon content.

[1950–55]

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carbon-14 dating - 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

carbon dating, radiocarbon dating

dating, geological dating - use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens

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Paul Carlsson, a paleometagenomicist working to establish his own career after an abusive childhood at the hands of his scientist father, has never known a world that wasn't 5,800 years old--a figure that, according to his father, had been proven by carbon-14 dating and thus had borne out the biblical story in which men roamed the world with dinosaurs as Adam and Eve tended the Garden of Eden.

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Among the cases are ink testing the Vinland Map, carbon-14 dating the Shroud of Turin, the magic bullet and the Kennedy assassination, Romanov bones and DNA matches, Hitler's skull, tracking the killer virus of 1918, testing the Titanic rivets, and identifying Osama bin Laden.

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