rubidium-strontium dating
- rubidium-strontium dating
noun
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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/rooh bid"ee euhm stron"shee euhm, -sheuhm, -tee euhm/, Geol.
a radiometric dating method whereby the ratio of rubidium isotope to strontium in a mineral is used to calculate the age of the mineral, based on the rate of radioactive decay of rubidium to strontium.
[1965-70]
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rubidˈium-stronˈtium dating noun
A method of determining the age of rocks that are more than 10 million years old by measuring the relative amounts of rubidium-87 and its beta decay product strontium-87
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