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Which technique is used for measuring age of rocks, fossils etc.

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For measuring large time intervals, we use the
technique of radioactive dating. Large time
intervals are measured by studing the ratio of
number of radioactive atoms decayed to the
number of surviving atoms in the spectimen.
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