half-lives in English

noun
1
the time taken for the radioactivity of a specified isotope to fall to half its original value.
The small, lead-shielded canisters contain pellets or a fine powder of caesium 137, which emits powerful gamma radiation with a half-life of 30 years.

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1. Ye never knew how the other half lives!

2. Half the world knows not how the other half lives. 

3. The majority of these have half-lives less than 24.6 seconds.

4. 137Cs and 134Cs have half-lives of 30 and two years, respectively.

5. They decay mainly by alpha-particle emission and have very long half-lives.

6. All other radioisotopes have half-lives under 20 seconds, most less than 200 milliseconds.

7. One half of the world does not know how the other half lives. 

8. Three other isotopes have half-lives of at least a day—188Ir, 189Ir, and 190Ir.

9. It’s recommended that your Biologic be stopped more than four half-lives before your surgery

10. The alpha-decay half-lives predicted for 291–307Uue are on the order of microseconds.

11. (a) the activity level includes contributions from daughter nuclides with half-lives less than 10 days;

12. - minimization of secondary actinides and other radionucleides with long half-lives in the nuclear fuel cycle,

13. Molybdenum isotopes with mass numbers from 111 to 117 all have half-lives of approximately 150 ns.

14. Ta and Tc are the half-lives of the parent nucleus relative to alpha decay and cluster radioactivity, respectively.

15. The half lives of these radicals are measured in nanoseconds - they literally destroy the first thing they bump in to.

16. Actinides are radioactive elements, typically with long half-lives, and include the major actinides uranium and plutonium as well as minor actinides.

17. Anticoagulant effects are delayed for five days after changes to dosing, including therapy initiation, because of the variable half-lives of previously formed circulating clotting factors.4.

18. In alevin of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), the half-lives were less than 24 hours for 14Cnaphthalene and 14C-B[a]P (Solbakken et al., 1984).

19. There was a good reason that the social critic Hutchins Hapgood wrote a rejoinder to Riis's "How the Other Half Lives," which he entitled "The Spirit of the Ghetto.

20. Oral Anticoagulants differ from heparin primarily in their longer duration of action, which is the result of extensive binding to plasma proteins, giving these agents relatively long plasma half-lives

21. As with intravenous Anesthetic infusions, prolonged delivery of highly soluble Anesthetic gases generally results in longer drug half-lives, slowed elimination from the brain and spinal cord, and delayed termination of anesthesia

22. The estimated half-lives of butadiene by reaction in water range from 4.2 to 28 days (Howard et al., 1991; Mackay et al., 1993). 2.3.1.3 Sediment The processes that are most prominent in determining the environmental fate of butadiene in sediment are biotic and abiotic degradation.

23. Antianxiety agents, or Anxiolytics, used for the treatment of anxiety disorders include benzodiazepines, azapirones, β-blockers, and antidepressants.The mechanism of action of anxiolytic benzodiazepines (Table 4; clonazepam, diazepam, lorazepam, and alprazolam) is GABA agonism.Because half-lives of these drugs are intermediate to long and these drugs are administered during the daytime

24. Berkelium is the first member of the second half of the actinide series and as such, studies of the physicochemical properties of this element enables more accurate extrapolations to the behavior of the heavier elements for which studies are severely limited by scarcity of material, very short half-lives, and intense radioactivity

25. Berkelium is the first member of the second half of the actinide series and as such, studies of the physicochemical properties of this element enables more accurate extrapolations to the behavior of the heavier elements for which studies are severely limited by scarcity of material, very short half-lives, and intense radioactivity.