RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING

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Meaning:

Geological dating based on the proportions of radioactive rubidium into its decay product strontium; radioactive rubidium has a half-life of 47,000,000,000 years

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Hypernyms ("rubidium-strontium dating" is a kind of...):

dating; geological dating (use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens)

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