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121radiocarbon dating — noun 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 • Syn: ↑carbon dating, ↑carbon 14 dating • Hypernyms: ↑dating, ↑geological… …
122UNIT dating controversy — The UNIT dating controversy is an ongoing debate in Doctor Who fandom, concerning exactly when the stories featuring the fictional military organization known as United Nations Intelligence Taskforce or more recently as the Unified Intelligence… …
123Fission track dating — is a radiometric dating technique based on analyses of the damage trails, or tracks, left by fission fragments in certain uranium bearing minerals and glasses. Uranium 238 undergoes spontaneous fission decay at a known rate. The fragments emitted …
124Rubidium-strontium dating — The rubidium strontium dating method is a radiometric dating technique that geologists use to determine the age of rocks.Development of this process was aided by Fritz Strassmann, who later moved onto discovering nuclear fission with Otto Hahn… …
125A Dating Story — is a Banyan Productions show that features a real life matchmaker and two people they’ve always wanted to fix up. A Dating Story follows the new couple from their preparations for the date (he’s picking flowers . . . she’s picking out clothes),… …
126potassium-argon dating — /peuh tas ee euhm ahr gon/, Geol. a method for estimating the age of a mineral or rock, based on measurement of the rate of decay of radioactive potassium into argon. [1965 70] * * * Method for determining the age of igneous rocks based on the… …
127fission-track dating — Method of determining the age of a mineral that utilizes the damage done by the spontaneous fission of uranium 238, the most abundant isotope of uranium. The fission results in radiation damage, or fission tracks, that can be made visible by… …
128Charity dating — is a process of raising money for charity by being taken on a date by someone who will donate money to charity for the privilege[1]. It is common for celebrities to help charitable causes by auctioning off a date with themselves to an audience.… …
