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carbon-date
[kahr-buhn-deyt]
verb (used with object)
to estimate the age of (an object of plant or animal origin) by radiocarbon dating.
Word History and Origins
Origin of carbon-date1
Example Sentences
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.
A small amount of carbon-14 was also added so future scientists would be able to carbon-date the package from the past.
“We can’t carbon-date them,” he said.
They could carbon-date the remnants of the fire pit to learn when prehistoric people were using that very tool.
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.
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