Definitions for "Carbon Dating"
A method of using the half-life of Carbon-14 to find the approximate age of an object that is up to 50,000 years old.(Basic Science/Radiography/carbon14dating.htm) (Course Material/Radiography/Physics/carbondating.htm)
Methods of finding out the age of artefacts that contain materials that were once alive. When it dies a living organism takes in no more carbon from the atmosphere and the percentage of C-14 will decrease. The ratio of C-14 to total carbon is found and from this the age can be calculated.
A method for dating organic material based on the decay rate of a naturally occurring isotope of carbon.