NOUN
- the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
How To Use radioactive decay In A Sentence
- Radon is present in the atmosphere because it is constantly being formed during the radioactive decay of uranium and radium.
- Beta decay is one of three principal forms of radioactive decay: alpha, beta, and gamma.
- In 1913 Richards had discovered that the atomic weight of natural lead and of that formed in radioactive decay of uranium minerals differ. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
- They decided that the mysterious emanation must consist of gamma rays, the third form of radiation produced by radioactive decay.
- Francium was discovered in 1939 by the French physicist Marguerite Perey while she was analyzing the products formed during the radioactive decay of actinium.
- Gentry had discovered that granites contain microscopic coloration halos produced by the radioactive decay of primordial polonium.
- Fajans and Göhring were analyzing the mixture of substances found when isotopes of uranium undergo radioactive decay.
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- Helium is also made by radioactive decay of uranium and thorium, both of which decay by emission of alpha particles.
- Fajans and Göhring were analyzing the mixture of substances found when isotopes of uranium undergo radioactive decay.
