amino-acid dating

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Definition of amino-acid dating words

noun amino-acid dating a method used to date an organic geological or archaeological specimen, as a fossil or mummified body, by determining how much change has occurred in the amino-acid structure of that specimen. 1

before 1970

One of the 2% newest English words

First recorded in 1970-75

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