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  1. Radiocarbon dating - Wikipedia

    Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of …

  2. Radiocarbon | Cambridge Core

    Radiocarbon is the international journal of record for technical and interpretive articles and date lists relevant to 14 C and other radioisotopes and techniques used in archaeological, …

  3. Home | Radiocarbon

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  4. Carbon Dating or Radiocarbon Dating Explained - Science Notes …

    Jan 29, 2025 · Carbon dating, also known as radiocarbon dating or carbon-14 dating, is a method of determining the age of organic materials by measuring the amount of carbon-14 (14 C) …

  5. What is Carbon Dating? | University of Chicago News

    Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a scientific method that can accurately determine the age of organic materials as old as approximately 60,000 years.

  6. What is Carbon-14 (14C) Dating? Carbon Dating Definition - Radiocarbon

    Carbon-14 is a weakly radioactive isotope of Carbon; also known as radiocarbon, it is an isotopic chronometer. C-14 dating is only applicable to organic and some inorganic materials (not …

  7. Carbon-14 dating | Method, Meaning, Uses, & Facts | Britannica

    Dec 3, 2025 · Carbon-14 dating is a method of age determination that depends upon the decay to nitrogen of radiocarbon (carbon-14). Carbon-14 is continually formed in nature by the …

  8. Radiocarbon dating - Nature Reviews Methods Primers

    Sep 9, 2021 · Radiocarbon (14 C) is a radioactive isotope of carbon produced naturally in the atmosphere by secondary cosmic rays. The discovery of 14 C and the establishment of the …

  9. Making the case for an International Decade of Radiocarbon

    Radiocarbon (14C) is a critical tool for understanding the global carbon cycle. During the Anthropocene, two new processes influenced 14C in atmospheric, land and ocean carbon …

  10. Radiocarbon dating | Research Starters - EBSCO

    Radiocarbon dating is a means of determining the approximate time at which biological processes ceased in a once-living organism or in related organic substances.