8 sentences with 'decay'
Example sentences and phrases with the word decay and other words derived from it.
• « In ancient India and pre-Columbian America it was held, as in Mesopotamia, that tooth decay was caused by a sinister worm nesting in man's teeth. »
• « With the death of each organism, the accumulation of carbon-14 ends and its decay begins, but this stage is so slow that only after 5730 years has half of the radioisotope C-14 disintegrated, and after 11,460 years a quarter of it still remains. »
• « For more distant dates it is possible to find out from the potassium radioisotope K - 40, whose decay is even slower than that of C - 14. »
• « With the death of each organism, its accumulation ends and its decay begins, but this stage is so slow that only after 5,730 years has half of the C14 radioisotope disintegrated, and after 11,460 years a quarter of it still remains. »
• « For more distant dates it is possible to find out from the potassium radioisotope K40, whose decay is even slower. »
• « No, say theoretical physicists, what happens is that protons decay very slowly, almost undetectably by measuring devices. These little guys would live a whopping 10 to 29 years. Thank God they are in no hurry to immolate themselves. »