Decay used in a sentence

Decay in a sentence as a noun

Assuming the decay is exponential, that's about 3% per year.

The amount of decay heat from fission products remaining in the fuel can be lower if there would be scrubbing in place.

The HN rating system could normalize for this - decreasing time decay for periods where ratings are less frequent.

Fluoride is a perfect example: too little and your bones are weak & tooth decay sets in easily, too much and you get fluoridosis.

While things like new users being colored green are obvious, other things such as a change in the decay function on the front page may be less obvious.

The iron released to the rest of the universe is formed from the decay of nickel and cobalt in the supernova explosion.

Because the fuel is dispersed, and there are no high pressures to deal with, passive cooling of the decay heat in the molten fuel sump is greatly simplified.

Decay in a sentence as a verb

They can spontaneously decay to a lower-energy state.

It's going to make it significantly harder to hire actual talent, it's going to cause morale decay and revolt from within the company, and it erodes Zynga's brand.

Then you have to pulse the hydrogen with a laser and excite the muon into a new energy state and accurately measure the energy of the photons that come off in the decay.

...It is simply not possible to dismantle a nuclear reactor that close after shutdown -- the power produced by radioactive decay heat right after shutdown is in the order of 10MW, and the core is incredibly hot for weeks.

So far it seems right on-- technology continues to advance, but globally it looks as if the normal arc of society is from freedom to despotism followed by a decay into syndicated criminality.

As the world sees now, decay heat is the tiger in the room for reactor safety.-Brief Accident Scenario- If an accident occurs, and power is lost, the molten fuel drains back into a core sump vessel which then is cooled to deal with the decay heat.