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of radium and helium, which are the main decay products of uranium. In addition ... small amount of radium as a radioactive decay product of uranium; it was in ...

Radium is a decay product of uranium and is therefore found in all ... Radium is highly radioactive and its decay product, radon gas, is ...

1.17 minutes, during their studies of the decay chain of uranium-238. They ... The primary decay mode before the most stable isotope, 231-Pa, is ...

Alpha decay is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus ... Alpha decay is a form of nuclear fission in which the parent atom ...

minutes and decays to 255Fm through alpha decay or to 259Md through electron ... u (249No) to 262.108 u (262No). The primary decay mode before the most stable ...

Promethium can be formed as a product of uranium fission. Only trace ... 147Nd which decays into 147Pm through beta decay with a half-life of 11 days. ...

most stable one is radon-222. It is a decay product (daughter product) of ... atoms. Nonetheless, the rapid radioactive decay of radon limits the usefulness ...

The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, 164-Dy, is electron capture, and the primary mode after is beta minus decay. ...

The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, 152Sm, is electron capture, and the primary mode after is beta minus decay. The ...

of a radiogenic isotope, which is the decay-product of the radioactive parent ... * Radiocarbon dating: This technique measures the decay of carbon ...

The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, 159-Tb, is electron capture, and the primary mode after is beta minus decay. ...

966 u (Tm-146) to 176.949 u (Tm-177). The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, Tm-169, is electron capture, and the primary ...

ultraviolet or gamma ray irradiation. The decay times of this fluorescence ... or via a different process (e.g. as the product of a reaction) can transfer ...

Trace amounts of neptunium are found naturally as decay products from ... nuclei undergo fission, but the remainder decay to the ground state of 236U ...

The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, 153-Eu, is electron capture, and the primary mode after is beta minus decay. ...

to result from releases of the gas as a decay product from radioactive materials ... transforms to stable 40Ca (88.8%) via beta decay. These properties and ratios ...

In the case of radioactive decay, the transformation is spontaneous ... * kinetic energy of the product particles * emission of very high energy ...

half-life of more than 1.3×1021 years (the decay is not observed, only the ... The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, 158Gd ...

149.973 (Lu-150) to 183.961 (Lu-184). The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, Lu-175, is electron capture (with some alpha and ...

units (u) (121Pr) to 158.955 u (159Pr). The primary decay mode before the stable isotope, 141Pr, is electron capture and the primary mode after is beta ...

amu (Er-145) to 173.944 amu (Er-174). The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, Er-166, is electron capture, and the primary mode ...

with the act, as a prostitute, and the product, as a mother. Woman is a ... cowardliness." Weininger decries the decay of modern times, and attributes ...

== Radioactive decay == The radioactive decay of tritium may be classified as beta decay ...

zinc is added to cadmium telluride, the product is extremely well-suited ... : This solid oxide is the main product of burning tellurium in ...

It is usually not economical to mine bismuth as a primary product. Rather, it is most often obtained as a byproduct of the processing of other ...

a thin film of a hard, corrosion product forms spontaneously on the ... occurs when particles of corrosion product continuously abrade away ...

Most technetium produced on Earth is a by-product of fission of uranium-235 ... #039;s crust as a spontaneous fission product of uranium. In 1999 David ...

Nuclear fission differs from other forms of radioactive decay in that ... more favorable because this allows one product to be closer to the energetic ...

from 50 amu (50Co) to 73 amu (73Co). The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, 59Co, is electron capture and the primary mode ...

heat source in the form of radioactive decay, which was unknown at the time. ... material to break down into its "decay product." ...

955 u (Yb-151) to 179.952 u (Yb-180). The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, Yb-174 is electron capture, and the primary mode ...

The work ends with a dissertation on the decay of oratory, a typical subject ... hand, too much luxury and wealth leads to a decay in eloquence, which Longinus ...

It is also a significant combustion product released by vehicles running ... in the presence of a strong base, the product is methyl formate, an ester ...

lower altitudes are the result of the beta decay of neutrons created by cosmic ... mainly of energetic protons, is the product of the decay of albedo neutrons ...

alkaline crystalline solid. As a commercial product, lime often includes magnesium oxide, silicon oxide, and smaller amounts of aluminum oxide and iron ...

principle gives a lower bound on the product of the standard deviations ... (Landau measurements). Note also that the product of the uncertainties, of ...

The isotope 187Os is the daughter product of 187Re (rhenium-187, half-life = 4.56 x 1010 years) and is most often measured in terms of the ratio ...

The primary decay mode before the most abundant stable isotope, 107Ag, is electron capture and the primary mode after is beta decay. The primary ...

had the power to regulate the birth and decay of things in the world. The ... and reason is not other than a "sub-product," on occasion even ...

architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, “doubles,” madness ... emotions by representing the inevitable decay and collapse of human creations—thus ...

It decomposes to barium-137 (a short-lived product of decay), then to a form ... in nuclear power plants. It was a notable product during the 1986 Chernobyl ...

fertilizers, animal waste, or organic decay (as the product of bacteria ... The characteristic odor of animal flesh decay is caused by nitrogen-containing ...

and 10B (about 20 percent). Also, 11B is a by-product of the nuclear power industry. The shortest-lived isotope is 7B which has a half-life of 3 ...

On Earth, it is produced by the radioactive decay of much heavier elements ... is a result of radioactive decay. The decay product is found in minerals ...

These diverse forms of food plants were a product of human creativity, through ... seeds and young transplants. Infected seeds decay in the soil, while young ...

diagnosis, treatment and prevention of decay and damage. ... in libraries was already showing signs of decay at that time. Since libraries ...

with its parent isotope strontium-90, which is a product of nuclear explosions. == Compounds == * Yttrium barium copper oxide or YBCO (YBa2Cu3O7 ...

heat is produced by fusion or radioactive decay, this description focuses ... * Heat produced by the radioactive decay of fission products and materials ...

, attributed later to "albedo neutron decay," a secondary effect ... ions extracted from the ionosphere as a by-product of the polar aurora. In ...

a refined form of rutile) to make the end product which is either a powder ... (40Ti) to 57.966 amu (58Ti). The primary decay mode before the most abundant ...

U-236 nuclei undergo fission, but some decay to the ground state of U ... (Pu-228) to 247.074 u (Pu-247). The primary decay modes before the most stable ...

method as Gay-Lussac. He also purified the product by repeated washing. ... is a radioactive isotope produced by argon decay. Its half-life has been determined ...

The main route consists of respiration and decay mechanisms in which animal ... Losses - Respiration and Decay Aerobic RespirationMicrobial OxidationCombustion ...

in Enrico Fermi's 1934 theory of beta decay, however, led to a reinterpretation ... real foundation. The very idea of God is a product of human imagination. … ...

colored Rb6O and copper-colored Rb9O2. The final product is principally the superoxide, RbO2, which can then be reduced to Rb2O using excess rubidium metal. ...

ion to form calcium carbonate and a by product of carbon dioxide and water ... detritus) by fungi and bacteria for fermentation or decay. ...

an average over the distributions of the product of cross section and velocity ... itself, such as the DD reaction, then the product n_1n_2 must be replaced ...

Platinum is also produced commercially as a by-product of nickel ore processing. The huge quantities of nickel ore processed compensates for ...

materials needed in order to complete the product in exchange for pay according ... without rights, and a testament to the decay of feudal society. It was ...

Evil), with its provocative themes of sex, decay, death, and spiritual and ... of fate, [while] good is always the product of an art." ...

Zircon is a co-product or byproduct of the mining and processing of heavy mineral sands for certain minerals of titanium (ilmenite and rutile ...

to that of aluminum. 26Mg is a radiogenic daughter product of 26Al, which has a half-life of 717,000 years. Large enrichments of stable 26Mg have been ...

the instrumentation. With the radioactive decay of transuranic elements providing ... Lakeshore Cryotronics thermocouple wire product description.] Retrieved ...

Cheese is a dairy product produced in wide ranges of flavors, textures ... Cheese is a dairy product produced in wide ranges of flavors, textures ...

and smaller particles called silt are the product of physical weathering, ... As plants and animals die and decay they return organic (carbon-bearing ...

of the planet (20%) and from radioactive decay of minerals (80%). The geothermal ... irritating (and potentially dangerous) by-product of partially burnt wood ...

point rise in the gross domestic product. Although he initially rooted ... a very significant recovery from total decay preceding Kibaki's presidency ...

that the modern world is primarily the product of relatively recent and ... Toynbee argued that as civilizations decay, they experience a "schism ...

contributor to childhood obesity and tooth decay, and that allowing soft drink ... The Turkish soft drink manufacturer whose product was listed as highest ...

variety of factors resulted in the eventual decay of the bourgeois public sphere ... actions for which he is accountable, and a product of the transitions surrounding ...

a Mean Time Between Failures figure on product packaging or in promotional ... rises above 50 percent. However, the decay rate is not linear—when ...

than central planners determine prices, product mixes, output levels, and ... roughly one-sixteenth of gross national product and about one of every 16 ...

* A model of weak decay, which showed that the current coupling in ... and then multiply all differences. The product will be the net safety factor ...

Western Electric, and became a commercial product in 1922. ... high-end Sony, NEC, and Mitsubishi product lines) means an erosion ...

with other works. The manuscript is the product of two different scribes ... the manuscript has suffered additional decay, and the Thorkelin transcripts ...

lived isotopes generated by fission can decay away. After about 5 years ... storage. After 10,000 years of radioactive decay, according to United States ...

dwarfs. Rather, they are thought to be the product of mass loss in binary systemsSimon ... theories are not valid, the proton may decay by more complicated nuclear ...

limited each citizen to a fixed amount of product per month. During his administration ... economic infrastructure was in serious decay by 1985, when Gorbachev took ...

the work done by the force is defined as the scalar product of force and displacement vectors: : W = \vec{F} \cdot \Delta \vec{s} . ...

magnetic fields, and are themselves the product of requiring that physical ... Letters 31 (2005):147–151. and does not decay spontaneously in empty space ...

irritating but very poisonous gas. It is a product by incomplete combustion ... * Radon gas from radioactive decay within the Earth's crust. ...

so Uppsala University was left to decay. Tigerstedt gives an account ... statare, who were paid in kind only, with product and housing, comparable ...

action the necessary condition of the cultural product." ... * Groothuis, Douglas R. Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against ...

socio-economic problems including urban decay and crime. Other West Side ... Chicago has the third largest gross metropolitan product in the nation—ap ...

psychology, debate, radioactive decay, and the aftermath of nuclear ... others at Caltech to show that smog was a product of automobile pollution ...

eukaryote structure itself was a fusion product of the two different kinds ... As an animal dies, the organic materials gradually decay, such that ...

amount of energy locked up in radioactive decay— far more than chemistry ... Seaborg and his team. Plutonium was the product of uranium-238 absorbing ...

of the story focuses on Horus, the product of the union of Isis and ... which sought to prevent and reverse the decay that follows death. This ...

production determined the progressive decay of the Viceroyalty of Peru ... Popular celebrations are the product of every town's traditions ...

in DNA, occurring only as a breakdown product of cytosine, but a very ... T. Lindahl, "Instability and decay of the primary structure of ...

saw in these ideas the root of the decay of Islamic societies in the ... Per capita Gross Domestic Product was $5348 in 2005, a rank of 101 ...

and neutrinos in a burst of inverse beta decay, or electron capture. The ... The energy produced by stars, as a by-product of nuclear fusion, radiates ...