half-lives
- plural of half-life.
Example Sentences
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"I'm already starting to think of what we can do next in terms of measuring their half-lives, their masses and other properties."
From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2024
Classic-film cable and streaming services have tended to have short half-lives.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2023
Strange quarks are so dubbed because they have half-lives longer than expected, but they're still not very stable, especially when compared to electrons.
From Salon • Oct. 27, 2022
“And things that start out in the economics literature have half-lives in the applied policy world that are longer than the time period during which they’re the frontier of the field.”
From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2022
Alvarez determined that K-capture occurs only in heavy atoms with many protons—that is, those with high atomic numbers—-and in isotopes with long half-lives.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
