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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% | 5 | Radioactivity 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% | 8 | Radioactivity 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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