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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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Stems, twigs and driftwood embedded in the sand and mud were used to carbon-date the core sections.
I've noticed that some of the most devoted readers tend to carbon-date themselves by editor.
You could carbon-date those coins and determine that one was from the twentieth century and one was from ancient Rome.
Specific references instantly carbon-date those films, rendering them ever more unintelligible to future viewers.
In order to carbon-date something, samples of this carbon have to be done.
It had proved impossible to carbon-date the bone fragment accurately because of an absence of collagen from the sample.

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