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carbon-date — [kär΄bən dāt΄] vt. carbon dated, carbon dating to establish the age of (carbonaceous material) by means of carbon dating … English World dictionary
carbon-date — transitive verb see carbon dating * * * /kahr beuhn dayt /, v.t., carbon dated, carbon dating. to estimate the age of (an object of plant or animal origin) by radiocarbon dating. [1965 70] … Useful english dictionary
carbon-date — /kahr beuhn dayt /, v.t., carbon dated, carbon dating. to estimate the age of (an object of plant or animal origin) by radiocarbon dating. [1965 70] * * * … Universalium
carbon-date — transitive verb see carbon dating … New Collegiate Dictionary
carbon-date — car′bon date v. t. dat•ed, dat•ing ara chem. gel to estimate the age of (an object of plant or animal origin) by radiocarbon dating • Etymology: 1965–70 … From formal English to slang
date — [n1] point in time; particular day or time age, century, course, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, hour, juncture, moment, period, quarter, reign, span, spell, stage, term, time, while, year; concepts 800,801,802,815 date [n2] social… … New thesaurus
carbon dating — noun Date: 1951 the determination of the age of old material (as an archaeological or paleontological specimen) by means of the content of carbon 14 • carbon date transitive verb … New Collegiate Dictionary
Date — For the use of date on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers). Date or dates may refer to: Common Calendar date, a day on a calendar Date (metadata), a representation term or class associated with a data element date (Unix) … Wikipedia
date — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. day, time, moment; age, era, epoch; informal, rendezvous, tryst; escort, suitor, steady, blind date. v. place [in time], begin, start; outmode, age; informal, court, escort, take out, show the town or … English dictionary for students
Carbon — (), but as most compounds with multiple single bonded oxygens on a single carbon it is unstable.] Cyanide (CN–), has a similar structure, but behaves much like a halide ion (pseudohalogen). For example it can form the nitride cyanogen molecule… … Wikipedia
