Sentence examples for before decay from inspiring English sources

During the summer of 1941, Greisen and physicists from Denver and Boulder accompanied Rossi to Mount Evans, where they refined the knowledge of proportionality between mesotron momentum and lifetime before decay.

The tests were carried out over the last year, before decay would have made the dating impossible.

For a given nuclear species, it is possible to measure the energy E of the emitted alpha particle and the average lifetime τ of the nucleus before decay.

Where we do see cellular detail, it is thanks to permineralisation, a mode of preservation where mineral-rich fluids infiltrate the cells of an organism before decay can take hold.

His boastfulness about equaling the West, his pride in Lukoil's global reach, his loyalty to the ruler of his country -- it is reminiscent of another time, before decay and chaos brought the Soviet Union to its knees.

As the 70th anniversary of D-Day approaches, a "last chance" search is under way to find and record the scattered vestiges and fading memories of the largest air armada ever assembled – before decay, demolition and redevelopment remove the final traces.

For example, the famous Higgs boson doesn't exist under ordinary conditions because its lifetime before decaying to other particles is infinitesimally brief.

The atoms of 113 lasted for as long as 1.2 seconds before decaying radioactively to known elements.

Like other superheavy elements that populate the end of the periodic table, they only exist for fractions of a second before decaying into other elements.

The strange ones inhabit particles that only exists transiently, before decaying to something stable that contains only normal up and down quarks.

In 1952, Dr. Pais proposed a concept called "associated production" to explain why certain particles lived for unexpectedly long times before decaying.