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What dating technique did Otto Hahn pioneer?

  • Rubidium-strontium dating

  • Carbon-14 dating

  • Potassium-argon dating

  • Uranium-lead dating

Answer

Otto Hahn pioneered rubidium-strontium dating, a method used to determine the age of rocks and minerals from the quantities they contain of specific isotopes of rubidium (87Rb) and strontium (87Sr, 86Sr).
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