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What is the difference between relative dating and radiometric dating?

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Relative dating is, as its name infers, a way of determining the age of something based on other things found in or around the object. For example, finding the approximate age of a rock layer by its position relative to other layers. Radiometric dating measures relative amounts of radioactive and non-radioactive elements.