The position of each bend was tracked from the time of its initiation until it decayed (typically at the head or the tail) or was interrupted by 10 consecutive missing frames.
However, with little maintenance being done on the road, it decayed over time until by the early nineteenth century little remained of the road.
It decayed into insignificance by 500BC, and was lost until two centuries ago.
By the rules of quantum mechanics the atom was both decayed and not decayed until somebody looked inside, which meant that Schrodinger's poor cat was both alive and dead.
The average D' of (A,S) and (S,S) both started under 0.05 and gradually decayed until they reached a flat of around 0.01 at 300 bases (Fig. 2B).
Wiesler confides his doubts to Grubitz, who passes them on to Hempf; the upshot is that Wiesler is deputed to spy on Dreyman and Sieland — to enter their lives, like a virus, and lay waste to their innocence until it decays into guilt.
The atmospheric carbon stays locked in such material until it decays naturally or is burned for energy.
After each crew residency ended, it was necessary for Progress and TKS spacecraft to boost the station into a high orbit so it wouldn't decay until the next residency began.
So uranium becomes thorium, which in turn becomes protactinium, until finally it decays into lead.
