Examples of Radiometric Dating. Uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating: Radioactive uranium comes in two forms, uranium-238 and uranium-235. The number refers to the number of protons plus neutrons. Uraniums atomic number is 92, corresponding to its number of protons.

What type of radiation does carbon dating use?

Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.