Radioactive dating
What Radioactive dating means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
A method using the ratio of parent to daughter nuclei and the known half-life to calculate an age.
A method that uses the known decay of a radionuclide to estimate the age of a material.
Topics that use Radioactive dating
- Radioactive decay (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Radioactivity (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Half-life
- Absorber
- Alpha decay
- Beta-minus decay
- Beta-plus decay
- Carbon-14 and half-life
- Corrected count rate
- Decay constant
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