Sentence examples for undergo decay from inspiring English sources

Beta decay is often very slow, and, if the flux of neutrons is high, the nucleus might capture another neutron before there is time for it to undergo decay.

Minerals containing uranium (U) and thorium (Th) continually undergo decay reactions in which radioactive isotopes of uranium and thorium form various daughter elements and also release energy in the form of alpha and beta particles and gamma radiation.

However, most of the goods such as medicine, volatile liquids, and blood banks, undergo decay or deterioration over time.

This could, again, be a consequence of the highly reductive genomes of rickettsiae, or it could reflect two genes that have recently been laterally acquired and have yet to undergo decay.

Gene-expression profiling reveals that one-third of these mRNAs undergo decay at the MZT in wild-type embryos and are stabilized in embryos from aub and spn-E mutant females.

One possibility is that a change to environmental conditions creates a situation in which a pathway is no longer needed, and so existing pathways undergo decay by loss of individual genes over time.

Barium-130 (0.11 percent) is also naturally occurring but undergoes decay by double electron capture with an extremely long half-life (more than 4 × 1021 years).

(In the phase of mRNA decay T1/2 is usually referred to as 'T half-life' which measures the period of time it takes for a transcript undergoing decay to decrease its level by half).

However, results from experiments performed more recently challenge the view that variegatic acid is the key reducing agent driving Fenton chemistry in S. lacrymans (25): variegatic acid was not detected in wood undergoing decay.

Postlabelling has the advantage that the carrier molecule can be stored for a long period of time until needed, and the radionuclide, which undergoes decay, can be added shortly before the radiopharmaceutical is administered.

Although most genome-scale analyses tend to focus on annotated protein-coding genes, more thorough analysis has shown that many genomes contain the remnants of acquired genes that were presumably neutral and are currently undergoing decay and loss (Hao & Golding, 2006).