The Collaborative International Dictionary
Radiometry \Ra`di*om"e*try\ (r[=a]`d[i^]*[o^]m"[-e]*tr[y^]), n. (Physics) The use of the radiometer, or the measurement of radiation. -- Ra`di*o*met"ric (r[=a]`d[i^]*[-o]*m[e^]t"r[i^]k), a.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1877, from radiometer "instrument to transform radiant energy into mechanical work" (1875), radiometry, from radio-, here indicating "radiant energy," + -metric. Radiometric dating attested from 1906.
Wiktionary
a. Referring to the science of radiometry.
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "radiometric".
Such methods include chemical, radiometric, and geomagnetic dating techniques, as well as analysis of site stratigraphy, faunal remains, tool types, and the morphology of the hominid remains.
By using morphological differences in the fossils of hominids to resolve contradictory faunal, stratigraphic, chemical, radiometric, and geomagnetic datings in harmony with a favored evolutionary sequence, paleoanthropologists have allowed their preconceptions to obscure other possibilities.
Similar drawbacks are also found in modern chemical or radiometric dating studies.
In attempting to discredit the testimony of Elliott and Heys, who said no signs of burial were evident at Galley Hill, Oakley and Montagu offered several arguments in addition to their chemical and radiometric tests.
Scientists have employed chemical and radiometric tests to deny a Pliocene age to the Castenedolo bones.
Java, as well as attempts to date the fossils themselves by various chemical and radiometric methods.
But a forger with knowledge of modern chemical and radiometric dating methods could manufacture a fake that would not be easily detectable.
Repeated testing by different scientists using different paleomagnetic, chemical, and radiometric methods gives a wide spread of conflicting dates within this period.
All in all, the results of chemical and radiometric tests do not eliminate the possibility that the Kanam and Kanjera human fossils are contemporary with their accompanying faunas.
Similar drawbacks are also found in modem chemical or radiometric dating studies.
We shall now discuss issues related to the potassium-argon dating of the formations yielding hominid fossils in Java, as well as attempts to date the fossils themselves by various chemical and radiometric methods.
Often he had to borrow or patch together equipment in order to pursue his radiometric dating of rocks.
But radiometric measurements show temperatures near the core that even in so brief a passage will be lethal.
The earliest radiometric dates indicate that this tradition appeared in eastern Beringia sometime before 11,300 B.
But today the site was deserted, excepting himself, Warner, and the little Frenchman, imported at great expense to perform a radiometric analysis of the hole.