Sentence examples for atomic decay from inspiring English sources

At the turn of the twentieth century, Ernest Rutherford discovered that heavy elements produced radiation by atomic decay, confirming that vast reservoirs of energy were stored in the atom.

The first atomic decay would have poisoned it.

Based on the atomic decay rate on the detected transition, the total photon emission rate would be approximately R = (beta,frac {Gamma }{2}frac {1}{2} = 154,text {kcps}) for S=1 (see Eq. 1).

Particles emitted during atomic decay are classified by means of linear energy transfer (LET) radiation.

Scientists are taught, to a significant degree, to think linearly; for example, when they are taught about glycolysis, chemical synthesis, or atomic decay.

Physicists predicted democracy--in atomic decay--but researchers have caught neon atoms doing something that might turn out to be very undemocratic.

In a certain type of nuclear decay, an atomic nucleus spits out an electron and a particle called an antineutrino that always spins to the right as it zings along, like a football flung by a right-handed quarterback.

In such cases the atomic number is deduced from the method of production, from the parent-daughter relationship of the new element to known elements of lower atomic number resulting from its nuclear decay, and from its nuclear-decay systematics that cannot be attributed to any known nuclides.

The five atoms with atomic weight 293 decayed into atoms of roentgenium in a time of 0.014 second, and that with a weight of 294 decayed into an atom of dubnium in a time of 0.078 second.

When an unstable atomic nucleus decays into a more stable nucleus (see radioactivity), the "daughter" nucleus is sometimes produced in an excited state.

Most isotopes of thulium lighter than 169 atomic mass units decay via electron capture or beta-plus decay, although some exhibit significant alpha decay or proton emission.