Sentence examples for decay away from inspiring English sources

Many of the dangerous radioactive elements in spent nuclear fuel decay away within weeks and months.

The two of most concern -- strontium-90 and cesium-137 -- have half-lives of about 30 years, and will take about 300 years to decay away.

To become a fossil, the remains of an organism must not decay away to nothing, but instead be buried in some medium (mud, sand, ash) which generally (but not always) happens in water.

Such waves are evanescent and decay away exponentially in vacuum.

But they're fairly short-term, producing stark spikes that decay away after a few years.

If these decision errors are infrequent enough, the effects of these errors decay away and the decision-directed equalizer's performance remains similar to that of the training mode.

Another instrument could have identified minerals in the rock, but the radioactive cobalt it relies on has long decayed away.

A potential downside of the nuclear signal is that it will have decayed away within 100,000 years – a blink of the eye in geological time.

"It's in the groundwater, but not moving fast enough to get to site boundaries before it has long since decayed away".

Supplementing them were analyses of uranium, which resembles fluorine in its increase with time, and nitrogen, which decreases as bone protein decays away.

Such tests release radioactive iodine, which decays away in a matter of days, as well as longer-lived isotopes like radioactive cesium and strontium, which take many decades to disappear.