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Half-life

Term · Nuclear energy and radiation · MLC-T-NUC-000216

The time in which one half of the atoms of a particular radioactive substance disintegrate into another nuclear form. Measured half-lives vary from millionths of a second to billions of years. Also called physical or radiological half-life.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-NUC-000216
FieldNuclear energy and radiation
ReferencesNRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-NUC-000216",
  "term": "Half-life",
  "field": "Nuclear energy and radiation",
  "definition": "The time in which one half of the atoms of a particular radioactive substance disintegrate into another nuclear form. Measured half-lives vary from millionths of a second to billions of years. Also called physical or radiological half-life.",
  "references": [
    "NRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/nuclear/half-life/"
}

Record 216 of 555 in Nuclear energy and radiation terminology (MLC-0119). Request the full dataset.