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23 May, 19:00

How do we know the age of the Earth?

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    Scientists generally determine the age of the Earth based on radiometric age-dating of fragments from the Canyon Diablo iron meteorite. From the fragments, scientists calculated the relative abundances of elements that formed as radioactive uranium decayed over billions of years.
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