How to Use radiocarbon in a Sentence

radiocarbon

noun

• Their search began five years ago with a single radiocarbon clue from the ocean floor.
  — Lisa Wells, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• Part of our job was to see if each of the 2,500 radiocarbon dates available would meet today’s standards.
  — Jessica Stone, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2020
• Since the 1950s researchers have known that the concentration of radiocarbon in tree rings varies over time.
  — Katherine Kornei, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2023
• In 2018, Jarman published a study of the inconsistent radiocarbon dates among the old bones in the garden.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
• The team also used radiocarbon and genetic methods to date the bone.
  — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 5 Oct. 2017
• The work confirms a 2021 study’s findings, which were based on radiocarbon dates from aquatic plant seeds in the sediments.
  — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2023
• However, our radiocarbon dates find that some of the key sites are from a century later, dating from the mid-16th to start of the 17th centuries.
  — Popular Science, 23 June 2020
• Topping found few of these orbs below the soil layer with the errant radiocarbon dates, and few after.
  — Zach St. George, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• Tree ring experts now know that large solar flares left evident traces on tree rings, which can be seen in a rapid increase of carbon-14, or radiocarbon, in the wood.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
• But new radiocarbon analysis suggests they were built in about 3,300BC - just a few hundred years after the first farms emerged in Britain.
  — Margi Murphy, Fox News, 7 June 2017
• Material from the cesspit radiocarbon dated to the 1400s, but Sabin and her colleagues aren’t sure how many people used it.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2020
• The age is determined in part by estimating the age of meteorites that fall to Earth (through radiocarbon dating) and the age of Earth rocks.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• Douglas and his colleagues compared the radiocarbon age of the plant waxes in each layer of sediment to the age of tiny plant fossils that had washed into the lake at the same time.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 22 Aug. 2018
• Further, cells that formed within that period would have had higher amounts of radiocarbon in the DNA.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 June 2022
• Lesnek and her colleagues used the latest research to account for the effect of marine diets on radiocarbon.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 30 May 2018
• This means the radiocarbon levels have been declining for years.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 June 2022
• To the best of their knowledge, the latest radiocarbon dates are the first chronometric age determinations for Malaysian rock art.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Aug. 2023
• Researchers used radiocarbon analysis to date the Whitesands cemetery’s use to the 6th through 11th centuries.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2021
• To find out, Des Lauriers will have to wait until the team excavates and takes samples for radiocarbon dating.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 10 Aug. 2017
• According to new radiocarbon and other isotopic age-dating tools, the water in this aquifer hit the surface as rain during the last Ice Age, when mammoths still lived here.
  — Brett Simpson, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2023
• The mummy has not yet been subjected to radiocarbon dating to determine its age, Aguilar said.
  — Franklin BriceÑo, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• They’ll be sampled for radiocarbon dating and to look for sterols, pollen, and other microscopic traces of past landscapes.
  — K.n. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2017
• White sharks are slow to grow and mature; radiocarbon analysis of their cartilage suggests the largest specimens might be as old as 70 years.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• The team analyzed these bones using radiocarbon dating to determine that the pits are roughly 8,000 years old.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2023
• As a result, the radiocarbon made its way into the plants, the animals, and eventually humans.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 June 2022
• In recent years it has been discovered that massive solar storms can cause radiocarbon levels in the atmosphere to spike, Dee said.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2021
• At the same time, the Economist notes, radiocarbon testing is so destructive that a sample can rarely be analyzed twice.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 7 June 2019
• The same should be true of mushroom tissue, with the level of radiocarbon serving as an indicator of the year in which the carbon was assimilated.
  — Veronique Greenwood, The Atlantic, 30 May 2017
• And the uncertainties of radiocarbon dating also had left open the possibility that the shells were, in fact, far older.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2018
• The finds will also be radiocarbon dated to determine their exact age.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024