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noun
A technique for estimating the age of astronomical objects by measuring the relative abundances of isotopes
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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History
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *knuks Latin nux Latin nucleuslbor. English nucleus English nucleo- English cosmochronology English nucleocosmochronology From nucleo- + cosmochronology.
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