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Cause Of Radioactivity Crossword Clue

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noun

• the process of gradually becoming inferior

• a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

• the organic phenomenon of rotting

• an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying

• the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation

verb

• lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current

• fall into decay or ruin

• undergo decay or decomposition

25%5Radioactivity unit
noun

• French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906)

• a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second

• French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)

25%8Radioactivity figure
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)

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