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Biological half-life

Term · Nuclear energy and radiation · MLC-T-NUC-000037

The time required for a biological system, such as that of a human, to eliminate, by natural processes, half of the amount of a substance (such as a radioactive material) that has entered it.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-NUC-000037
FieldNuclear energy and radiation
ReferencesNRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-NUC-000037",
  "term": "Biological half-life",
  "field": "Nuclear energy and radiation",
  "definition": "The time required for a biological system, such as that of a human, to eliminate, by natural processes, half of the amount of a substance (such as a radioactive material) that has entered it.",
  "references": [
    "NRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/nuclear/biological-half-life/"
}

Record 37 of 548 in Nuclear energy and radiation terminology (MLC-0119). Request the full dataset.