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Hmmm, I had it spelt wrong, Niandra left a word out, but I was referring to it as a verb; radio dating is something that you do, rather than radio dating being a method (although both are true)
'''Radiometric dating''' is used determine the age of an artifact by measuring the amount of radioactive decay that has occurred.<ref>[http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/radiometric.html Radiometric Time Scale] USGS</ref> Radiometric dating is mostly used to determine the age of rocks (though in the case of [[Radiocarbon dating]] can date wood, cloth, skeletons, and other organic material), and relies on the well-established function for exponential decay <math>F</math><sub><math>t</math></sub><math>=e</math><sup><math>-kt</math></sup>.
'''Radiometric dating''' is determining the age of an artifact by measuring the amount of radioactive decay that has occurred.<ref>[http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/radiometric.html Radiometric Time Scale] USGS</ref> Radiometric dating is mostly used to determine the age of rocks (though in the case of [[Radiocarbon dating]] can date wood, cloth, skeletons, and other organic material), and relies on the well-established function for exponential decay <math>F</math><sub><math>t</math></sub><math>=e</math><sup><math>-kt</math></sup>.
== Principles ==
== Principles ==