单词 | optical dating |
释义 | optical datingArchaeol. noun A technique for determining the time since a mineral sediment was last exposed to sunlight, in which electrons trapped at light-sensitive locations within the mineral are excited using an intense light source, and the resulting luminescence is measured. Origin1980s; earliest use found in Nature: a weekly journal of science. |
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