NOUN
- the time required for something to fall to half its initial value (in particular, the time for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate)
How To Use half-life In A Sentence
- The half-life of the new element Copernicium is not yet clear.
- Had deprived her, condemned her to the purgatory of a half-life without them. WALL GAMES
- Use of fast-acting, short half-life benzodiazepines such as alprazolam and lorazepam should be avoided.
- There are also studies on the combination of the short half-life antifolates, chloroproguanil and dapsone, and on pyronaridine, a Chinese synthetic compound. Chapter 2
- As for notched specimen, the fatigue life prediction using fatigue factors of half-life section is the smallest.
- Due to its extremely short half-life (about 0.1milliseconds), there's no reason for considering the effects of rutherfordium in the environment.
- the half-life of humic acid is measured in centuries
- The half-life of an isotope is the amount of time it takes for half of its atoms to decay. Egonomics
- Prealbumin, also known as transthyretin, has a half-life of only 1 to 2 days.
- In their measurements the authors recorded the dynamics of the photocycle and reconstructed it as a sum of nine exponents that vary in their half-life times from a microsecond up to tens of milliseconds.
