carbon-date

Example Sentences

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I don’t personally think that you need to carbon-date every incident, or that everything needs to be shoved in an evidence bag and waved in the other person’s face.

From Seattle Times

A small amount of carbon-14 was also added so future scientists would be able to carbon-date the package from the past.

From Salon

“We can’t carbon-date them,” he said.

From New York Times

They could carbon-date the remnants of the fire pit to learn when prehistoric people were using that very tool.

From Washington Times

The team used two underwater robotic explorers to map out a 3-D image of the ship and they took a sample to carbon-date its age.

From BBC