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English-Chinese geology dictionary (英汉地质大词典). 2013.
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Uranium-lead dating — Uranium lead is one of the oldest and most refined radiometric dating schemes, with a routine age range of about 1 million years to over 4.5 billion years, and with routine precisions in the 0.1 1 percent range. [Parrish, Randall R.; Noble,… … Wikipedia
uranium-lead dating — noun (geology) A method of determining the age in years of geological material, based on the known decay rate of uranium isotopes to lead isotopes • • • Main Entry: ↑uranium … Useful english dictionary
Uranium — (pronEng|jʊˈreɪniəm) is a silvery gray metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table that has the symbol U and atomic number 92. It has 92 protons and 92 electrons, 6 of them valence electrons. It can have between 141 and … Wikipedia
Lead-lead dating — is a method for dating geological samples, normally based on whole rock samples of material such as granite. For most dating requirements it has been superseded by uranium lead dating (U Pb dating), but in certain specialized situations (such as… … Wikipedia
Uranium-thorium dating — Uranium thorium dating, also called thorium 230 dating, uranium series disequilibrium dating or uranium series dating, is a radiometric dating technique commonly used to determine the age of carbonate materials such as speleothem or coral [ [http … Wikipedia
Uranium-uranium dating — is a radiometric dating technique utilizing the comparison of two isotopes of uranium (U) in a sample: 234U and 238U. 234U/238U dating is one of several radiometric dating techniques exploiting the uranium radioactive decay series, in which 238U… … Wikipedia
Age of the Earth — This article is about scientific estimates of the age of the Earth. For religious and other non scientific estimates, see Dating Creation. Earth as seen from Apollo 17 The age of the Earth is 4.54 billion years (4.54 × 109 years ± 1%) … Wikipedia
lead-210 dating — Method of dating that makes use of the ratio of the amount of the radioactive isotope lead 210 to that of the stable isotope lead 206. The method has been applied to the ores of uranium. Lead 210 dating is particularly useful for determining the… … Universalium
uranium-thorium-lead dating — or common lead dating Method of dating very old rocks by means of the amount of common lead they contain. Common lead is any lead from a rock or mineral that contains a large amount of lead and a small amount of the radioactive precursors of lead … Universalium
Uranium-238 — Infobox isotope background =#fc6 text color = image caption = 10 gram sample alternate names = mass number =238 symbol =U num neutrons =146 num protons =92 abundance = 99.284% halflife = 4.46 billion years error halflife = decay product = Thorium … Wikipedia
uranium — /yoo ray nee euhm/, n. Chem. a white, lustrous, radioactive, metallic element, occurring in pitchblende, and having compounds that are used in photography and in coloring glass. The 235 isotope is used in atomic and hydrogen bombs and as a fuel… … Universalium
