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Academic vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absolute dating | any method of measuring the age of an event or object in years |
| Radioactive decay | the process in witch a radioactive isotope tens t break down into stable isotope f the same element or another element |
| Half-life | the time required for half of a sample of a radioactive isotope to break down by radioactive decay to form daughter isotope |
| Radiometric dating | a method of determining the absolute age f an object by comparing the relative percentages of a radioactive parent isotope and a stable daughter isotope |