Sample Sentences forhalf-life (editor-reviewed)
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The half-life of highly radioactive substances is shorter than that of substances that radiate weakly.half-life = time to become half as radioactive
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Peak blood concentrations of acetaminophen are usually achieved within 30 to 60 minutes and have a half-life of 2 to 3 hours.half-life = time required to have half as much in the bloodstream
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The doubts arising from his initial failure had a longer half-life than he anticipated.half-life = time to diminish
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While polonium-210 has a half-life of 138 days, plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years.half-life = time required to be half as radioactive
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All these centuries, they have clung to half-life, hiding, waiting to reclaim their power.† (source)
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You have slain something pure and defenseless to save yourself, and you will have but a half-life, a cursed life, from the moment the blood touches your lips.† (source)
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I watched men in moon suits bury drums of nuclear waste and I thought of the living rocks down there, the subterrane process, the half-life, the atoms that decay to half the original number.† (source)
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The second Maddy knows that this pale half life is not really living.† (source)
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Plutonium-239 has a half-life of twenty-four thousand years.† (source)
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HALF LIFE† (source)
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Those TV's had a half-life of maybe two months.† (source)
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It's half-life is more than five thousand years.† (source)
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For six years, Sobukwe lived a kind of half-life on the island; he was a free man who was denied his liberty.† (source)
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All up the coast I could see the signs of what the Combine had accomplished since I was last through this country, things like, for example-a train stopping at a station and laying a string of full-grown men in mirrored suits and machined hats, laying them like a hatch of identical insects, half-life things coming pht-pht-pht out of the last car, then hooting its electric whistle and moving on down the spoiled land to deposit another hatch.† (source)
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That was partially true as far as it went — but, if we had not faced all the problems before they arose, we were well aware of those that were constantly with us, and of those the main one was the need of dissembling, of leading all the time a suffocating half-life with our families.† (source)
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Something may have happened to the half-life that we don't know about.† (source)
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