rubidium-strontium dating

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   geological dating based on the proportions of radioactive rubidium into its decay product strontium; radioactive rubidium has a half-life of 47,000,000,000 years

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Questions about rubidium-strontium dating

What does rubidium-strontium dating mean?

rubidium-strontium dating means "geological dating based on the proportions of radioactive rubidium into its decay product strontium; radioactive rubidium has a half-life of 47,000,000,000 years".

Is rubidium-strontium dating a common word?

rubidium-strontium dating is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.