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Radioactive dating of elements consists in using the meteoritic abundances of the decay products of certain radioactive elements to derive information on their age distribution in the solar system. This information, in turn, is relevant to the duration of the star formation and nucleosynthesis history before the Sun formed and therefore to the age of the Galaxy. In particular, nucleochronology utilizes our knowledge of the abundances and production rates of radioactive nuclear species in stars in the framework of chemical evolution models.
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Matteucci, F. (2003). Nucleochronology and the Age of the Galaxy. In: The Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 253. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0967-6_7
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