Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
carbon dating
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Excavators have been reluctant to put dates to their finds and one can understand why. carbon dating being expensive.
▪ Tests on 16 fossilised shellfish showed that acid dating is as accurate as carbon dating.
Wiktionary
carbon dating
n. radiocarbon dating.
WordNet
carbon dating
n. a chemical analysis used to determine the age of organic materials based on their content of the radioisotope carbon-14; believed to be reliable up to 40,000 years [syn: radiocarbon dating, carbon-14 dating]
Usage examples of "carbon dating".
The tray would catch any debris that came loose from the papyrus, fragments that could be used for carbon dating.
Okay, there won't be any sketches, trances, any other activity from me, until the carbon dating results are in.
Samples of that stuff, rocketed up to the ship, would give a reliable estimate, by radio-carbon dating, of how long ago this building had been occupied.