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What does carbon-date mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word carbon-date? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To gauge the age of (an organic material) by comparing the ratio of carbon isotopes.
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It had proved impossible to carbon-date the bone fragment accurately because of an absence of collagen from the sample.
In order to carbon-date something, samples of this carbon have to be done.
Specific references instantly carbon-date those films, rendering them ever more unintelligible to future viewers.
The Vatican was deciding whether to allow scientists to carbon-date a segment of the cloth.
But we plan to carbon-date the charcoal at the site to find out the exact date of the building.
You could carbon-date those coins and determine that one was from the twentieth century and one was from ancient Rome.

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