Sentence examples for before decaying from inspiring English sources

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.

In contrast, a single neutron, free from the forces at work within the nucleus, lives an average of nearly 15 minutes before decaying.

Strictly speaking, of course, the detectors never actually saw a Higgs, which lives only for a mayfly-esque sextillionth of a second before decaying into lighter particles.

Anticyclones tend to migrate equatorward out of the cold air mass regions and then eastward before decaying or merging with a warm anticyclone.

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.

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.

Because some radioactive materials can persist in the environment for many thousands of years before fully decaying, there is much concern over the control of these wastes.

However, the higher temperature anneals peaked in total power density after 6-30 s of annealing before steadily decaying with longer times.

There it decays through several more steps to polonium-210, much of which, during its 138-day half-life, is washed back down to the Earth's surface, thus entering the biosphere, before finally decaying to stable lead-206.

Elements rapidly decay from the A1 state into a secondary activity state (A2) where they remain before gradually decaying back to an inactive state (I).