Collocations withdecay

These are words often used in combination withdecay.

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decay mode
The second employs the lower-hybrid wave as the decay mode.
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decay product
In 1983, they repeated the experiment using a new technique: measurement of alpha decay from a decay product that had been separated out chemically.
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dental decay
The addition of a very small amount of fluoride to drinking water in appropriate localities likewise prevents or reduces dental decay, but on this matter there has been considerable resistance.
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economic decay
The economic decay of 1907-1910 was interspersed some economic revivals.
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environmental decay
In those urban centres today we have terrifyingly high unemployment, idle and alienated youth, racial tension, environmental decay and a pervasive pessimism about the future.
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exponential decay
This implies the exponential decay of correlations of the induced map; this statement is one of the most important results of this work.
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moral decay
Gikuyu posterity was endangered by the moral decay of the time.
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natural decay
Archaeologists are limited to collecting material items that survive natural decay and human destruction, including human and animal bones, pottery, metal work, settlement residues, seeds and pollen and so forth.
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orbital decay
However, unexpectedly high solar activity in the late 1980s and early 1990s increased atmospheric drag on the station and sped its orbital decay.
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physical decay
Once airborne, virus particles are subject to environmental factors that influence their rate of biological and physical decay.
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rapid decay
The increase in convection velocity is caused by the more rapid decay of the smaller pressure producing eddies near the wall.
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sign of decay
It is not in any way a sign of decay or decline.
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slow decay
Note the velocity larger than free stream outside the slug region and the slow decay of disturbances both up- and downstream.
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social decay
In a conurbation the areas of social decay tend to spread outwards.
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stage of decay
First, some historic buildings reach a stage of decay where collapse or demolition is inevitable without outside intervention.
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tooth decay
Indeed, one might legitimately ask whether, in terms of its semantics, dental is an adjective at all, given its synonymy with tooth in tooth decay.
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urban decay
The difference is that at 75 or 85 years of age, people may feel an even greater sense of being trapped or disadvantaged by urban decay.
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wood decay
Termites in tropical forests show varied contributions to wood decay, depending on wood size and quality.
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