potassium–argon
Chemistry
noun
(attributive) designating or relating to a method of isotopic dating based on measurement of the relative amounts in rock of potassium-40 and its decay product, argon-40.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America.
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