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unit 7 lesson 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| absolute dating | any method of measuring the age of an event or object in years |
| radioactive decay | the process in which a radioactive isotope tends to break down into a stable isotope of 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 a daughter isotope |
| radiometric dating | a method of determining the absolute age of an object by comparing the relative percentage of a radioactive parent isotope and a stable daughter isotope |