{"term":{"id":"05078","title":"radioactive age","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - radioactive age","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.R05078","code":"R05078","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"The time, estimated from measurement of the isotopic composition, during which the content of a radioactive species within an object has remained unchanged except for nuclear decay.","links":[{"term":"nuclear decay","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/N04227"},{"term":"radioactive","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/R05077"}],"sources":["PAC, 1982, 54, 1533. 'Glossary of terms used in nuclear analytical chemistry (Provisional)' on page 1549 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac198254081533)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/R05078\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/R05078\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/R05078\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'radioactive age' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.R05078","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-07-12T17:19:06+00:00"}}