Sentence examples for be used to date from inspiring English sources
Some nuclides, such as isotopes of rubidium and strontium, can be used to date rocks that are billions of years old (see rubidium-strontium dating).
The colour intensity of the ring diminishes with time and can be used to date the mineral in which the pleochroic halo appears.
Many of these isotopes have short half-lives and hence can be used to date events that happened in the past few thousand to a few million years.
He co-authored "Ancient Seals and the Bible" as well as over forty-five scholarly papers on techniques that can be used to date and explain ancient seals and other artifacts.
The study has wider implications for crime forensics, she added, as bomb carbon could be used to date human bones as well as to detect art forgeries.
Because the rate of decay for both woodblock and copperplate prints is fairly constant, it can be used to date undated versions of known works, Hedges says.
Both companies stressed that they had no evidence that the illicit certifications had been used to date.
The hydration rind dating technique also has been used to date glassy rhyolitic flows that have erupted more than 200 years ago but less than 200,000 years ago.
Certain fossil corals have long been used to date rocks relatively, but only recently has it been shown that corals may also serve as absolute geochronometers.
Correction: August 28 , 2002 Wednesday An article on Friday about the earliest known meteor impact on Earth misstated the origin of the zircon crystals that were used to date the impact.
