24 TermsHome > Terms > Spanish, Latin American (XL) > potasio-argón
potasio-argón
A radiometric dating method based on the fact that potassium-40 in volcanic rock decays into argon-40 and calcium-40 at a known rate. The half-life of potassium-40 is approximately 1. 3 billion years. Chronometric dates are determined by measuring the amount of argon-40 in a sample. Similarly, argon-40 and argon-39 ratios can be used for chronometric dating.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Anthropology
- Category: Physical anthropology
- Company: Palomar College
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Personal life Category: Divorce
ceremonia de divorcio
Una ceremonia formal para finalizar oficialmente un matrimorio tras el intercambios de votos de divorcio y regresando los anillos de matrimonio. En ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
pmss1990
0
Terms
1
Blossaries
0
Followers
Medecine: Immunodeficiency and pathophysiology
Category: Science 2 22 Terms
22 Terms
Browers Terms By Category
- Zoological terms(611)
- Animal verbs(25)
Zoology(636) Terms
- Characters(952)
- Fighting games(83)
- Shmups(77)
- General gaming(72)
- MMO(70)
- Rhythm games(62)
Video games(1405) Terms
- Meteorology(9063)
- General weather(899)
- Atmospheric chemistry(558)
- Wind(46)
- Clouds(40)
- Storms(37)
Weather(10671) Terms
- Printers(127)
- Fax machines(71)
- Copiers(48)
- Office supplies(22)
- Scanners(9)
- Projectors(3)
Office equipment(281) Terms
- Material physics(1710)
- Metallurgy(891)
- Corrosion engineering(646)
- Magnetics(82)
- Impact testing(1)