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unit 7 lesson 3
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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 the same of a radioactive isotope to break down by radioactive decay to form a daughter isotope |
radiometric dating | method of determining the absolute age of an object by comparing the relative percentages of radioactive parent isotope and a stable daughter isotope |