radiometric dating
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After determining the materials in the sample and performing radiometric dating, the researchers concluded that the oldest crystals are about 4.46 billion years old.
From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2023
We can estimate their age with radiometric dating, and chemical analysis, which gives us a sense of when life began.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2023
Through the use of radiometric dating, scientists can study the age of fossils or other remains of extinct organisms to understand how organisms have evolved from earlier species.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Five types of radiometric dating applied to those animal fossils revealed that they were buried between 117,000 and 108,000 years ago, the researchers report today in Nature.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 18, 2019
But even with radiometric dating, as decay measurements became known, it would be decades before we got within a billion years or so of Earth’s actual age.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
