short-lived isotope

collocation in English

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short-lived
adjective
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/ˌʃɔːtˈlɪvd/us
/ˌʃɔːrtˈlɪvd/
If a feeling or experience is short-lived, it only lasts for a ...
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isotope
noun[C]
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/ˈaɪ.sə.təʊp/us
/ˈaɪ.sə.toʊp/
a form of an atom that has a different atomic weight from other forms of the same atom but the same ...
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Ingesting even a millicurie is usually fatal (unless it is a veryshort-livedisotope).
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Americium-242 is ashort-livedisotopewith a half-life of 16.02 h.
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The generation of oneshort-livedisotopefrom longer lived isotope is a useful method of providing a portable supply of ashort-livedisotope.
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Theshort-livedisotopeis usually a meta-stable nuclear isomer.
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Einsteinium is the element with the highest atomic number which has been observed in macroscopic quantities in its pure form, and this was the commonshort-livedisotopeeinsteinium-253.
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In other words, the radiation from a long-lived isotope like iodine-129 will be much less intense than that of ashort-livedisotopelike iodine-131.
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When an isotope decays into a veryshort-livedisotopeand then decays again to a relatively long-lived isotope, the products of the second decay are delayed.
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Roughly speaking, it states that short-lived isotopes emit more energetic alpha particles than long-lived ones.
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Other short-lived isotopes are thus seen only as extinct radionuclides, whose former existence is inferred now from a superabundance of their stable decay products.
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Studies of ancient meteorites reveal traces of stable daughter nuclei of short-lived isotopes, such as iron-60, that only form in exploding, short-lived stars.
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It can range from a few days for very short-lived isotopes to millions of years for spent nuclear fuel.
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It is common for the short-lived isotopes to have delayed emissions of various particles.
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Whereas such method could have been efficient in scientific studies of short-lived isotopes, it could not improve the overall collection efficiency of the produced actinides.
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The short-lived isotopes of iodine are particularly harmful because the thyroid collects and concentrates iodide radioactive as well as stable.
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Many of the fission products decay through very short-lived isotopes to form stable isotopes, but a considerable number of the radioisotopes have half-lives longer than a day.
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