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Radiometric dating (often called radioactive dating) is a technique used to date materials such as rocks or carbon, in which trace radioactive impurities were selectively incorporated when they formed.his scheme is used to date old igneous and metamorphic rocks, and has also been used to date lunar samples. Closure temperatures are so high that they are not a concern. Rubidium-strontium dating is not as precise as the uranium-lead method, with errors of 30 to 50 million years for a 3-billion-year-old sample.
25. The absolute age of a rock is the approximate number of years ago that the rock formed. The absolute age of an igneous rock can best be determined by (1) comparing the amounts of decayed and undecayed radioactive isotopes in the rock (2) comparing the sizes of the crystals found in the upper and lower parts of the rock