Akademik

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

noun [noncount]

technical : a scientific way of finding the age of something that is very old (such as a dinosaur bone) by measuring the amount of certain forms of carbon in it

ˌcarbon ˈdating f11 [carbon dating] (also formal ˌradiocarbon ˈdating) noun uncountable

a method of calculating the age of very old objects by measuring the amounts of different forms of ↑carbon in them

See also: ↑radiocarbon dating