Talk:Thermoluminescence dating

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Clean up

If you ask me, this article is difficult to understand and needs clean-up.

Reference to the work of Keizars et al.

Both here and in Thermoluminescence are a number of references to the work of "Ķeizars, Z et al." which don't seem to be of too much importance to the field of TL. I recommend that someone may remove this in the next edit of any of these two articles. Thank you. BM 24.34.207.168 (talk) 23:00, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Destructive method?

Why is thermoluminescence dating described as as "destructive method"? How much material needs to be destroyed to date pottery? -- Petri Krohn (talk) 04:43, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Typo/grammar?

"As a crystalline material is heated during measurements the process of thermoluminescence starts." Seems like a typo of some sort in this sentence, but I'm not sure how to fix. 184.8.220.129 (talk) 20:19, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Range of chronological accuracy/suitability?

Hi, I know little about this dating technique, and in fact little more than five minutes ago it and myself were complete strangers.

So, as someone curious about the process, I soon noticed this article has absolutely--unless I missed it which is possible--no information on what "range of oldness" (ancientness?) this technique is accurate/suitable for, which I imagine most would agree is a pretty important part of knowing about a dating method. I assume from mentioning human stuff it can date things in the hundreds and thousands of years, but then there's talk of sand! How far back can this be used? Hopefully a kind soul who knows can provide enlightenment via the edit button for this article.

To be clear, I myself am not particularly troubled by this as it harms my research efforts naught but my taking five minutes to type this. But should this information remain absent, one day, some poor soul may desperately want to know just when exactly Thermoluminescence dating can and should be used to date old stuff.

And to their horror, this article won't enlighten them on the matter at all.

A tragedy I hope I have now played my small part in preventing. Imascrabblefreak (talk) 11:01, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]