Sentences with phrase «which decay»

OTOH, bombarding long - lived radioisotopes with neutrons can convert them either to stable isotopes or ones which decay much faster.

Ms. Gallaccio, who was born in Scotland, lives in London and is a first - generation Y.B.A. (Young British Artist), is known for using organic materials like fruit, flowers, ice and chocolate, which decay or disintegrate while on display.

However, because this form of visual art uses natural materials which decay, wither or melt, many constructions were temporary, necessitating their capture on camera or video.

«The balls survive up to 0.3 seconds after the current is switched off — far longer than normal plasmas, which decay away far more quickly,» says Fussmann.

The resulting proton beam would then be fired at a carbon and copper target to generate particles called pions, some of which decay into antineutrinos.

Members of a team led by paleoanthropologist Isaiah Nengo estimated the fossil's age by assessing radioactive forms of the element argon in surrounding rock, which decay at a known rate.

But also new elements are created in the hot ejecta of the explosion, among them radioactive species such as 44Ti (titanium with 22 protons and 22 neutrons in its atomic nuclei) and 56Ni (28/28 neutrons / protons), which decay to stable calcium and iron, respectively.

But first they had to figure out how to accurately measure the short - lived paths of the B meson particles, which decay after traveling on average about one - thousandth of an inch (by contrast, the kaons studied by Fitch and Cronin traveled more than 100 feet).

But its mass and the manner in which it decays run counter to theoretical expectations for a particle composed of those two quarks.

So his group acquired a sample of radioactive manganese - 54, which decays in just under a year, neither too slow nor too fast to study.

Generated in the proton - proton collisions were large numbers of positive pions, which decayed first into positive muons and then into positrons.

The isotope they had synthesized was the very unstable curium - 242, which decays in a half - life of 162 days.

The rate with which decays into various particles occur can be computed within the framework of the underlying theory.

Fission in the uranium created a smaller deposit of plutonium, which decayed back into uranium.

Fossil fuels lack a type of radioactive carbon, an isotope called carbon - 14, which decays over time.

An important property of quarks is called confinement, which states that individual quarks are not seen because they are always confined inside subatomic particles called hadrons (e.g., protons and neutrons); an exception is the top quark, which decays so quickly that it does not hadronize, and can therefore be observed more directly via its decay products.

Guth hypothesized that the universe was initially trapped in a peculiar state (the «false vacuum») from which it decayed, in the process expanding exponentially and liberating the energy present in our universe today.

To touch upon Eli's so far ignored question (# 3) on bridging the hierarchy of models: The issue at stake is the curvatuve in a plot of N vs. Ts, where N is basically the TOA imbalance (which decays to zero as equilibrium is approached) and Ts is the surface temperature.

Hewitt draws on the tradition of 17th - century still life / Vanitas paintings, in which decaying matter symbolizes the inevitability of death.

Over the past few decades, many of America's once - gritty cities have seen a profound revitalization in which decaying industrial buildings have been turned into residences, artists» lofts and gallery spaces.

Let's ignore NASA gmao ensemble for ENSO and instead eyeball a prolonged La Nina episode for 2011, which decays into 2012 giving neutral conditions:

To touch upon Eli's so far ignored question (# 3) on bridging the hierarchy of models: The issue at stake is the curvatuve in a plot of N vs. Ts, where N is basically the TOA imbalance (which decays to zero as equilibrium is approached) and Ts is the surface temperature.

This spatial pattern is consistent with the air temperature — North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index correlation pattern, with maximum correlation in the near - Atlantic region, which decays toward the North Pacific.

Not exact matches

Unbeknownst to Jones, however, the parents are actually trying to save their son, who has a neurodegenerative disease which is causing his brain cells to decay.

Lerner went on to found cosmetics company Urban Decay, which she sold to LVMH in 2000.

The current fragmentation of global financial markets may be likened to habitat fragmentation in the natural world, in which large, continuous biological habitats are divided into a greater number of smaller eco-systems, isolated from each other by a matrix of dissimilar habitats, leading inexorably to broad ecosystem decay.

And if at that point I could think or reason which, of course, atheists probably believe I would not be able to do because I would be nothing but decaying matter... I believe that I would be disappointed to not see God as I expected to.

Without pretending to be scientific about it, the world may be imagined to be a vast collection of existences — things and substances of various compositions and kinds — each of which is what it is, and moves, changes, grows, or decays as it does by reason of its relation to other things: things existing in various ways by, and in some cases, at the expense of, or on, other things.

Frasca quotes one editorial published after the war which claimed that Mexico lost because Catholicism was «the festering canker - worm... infecting every organ of vitality and every fibre of strength with the poison of premature rottenness and decay....

Everywhere you look in nature, that which ceases to live decays and disappears.

Wells describes the book as the continuation of an enterprise begun in 1989, which aimed to «explore the reasons for the decay of evangelical thinking, and not least in theology.»

«The limitations of quantum thermal dynamics may only be attributed by the heated degradation effects in timed probabilities upon perpetual decaying ratios of certain atoms structuralized accolades of which quantum physics remains allegorically aloof upon and can not be soundly fathomed via any mathematical physics conveyances which by the way are fraught with faulty mathematical probabilities and unreasoned factual soundings.»

The degree to which an actuality departs from a prior entity is determined by a number of factors, the flux of occurrent sensation, the baseline activity at each phase as it is activated, the decay of prior states and the emergent novelty inherent in the becoming process.

In any event, it was all fairly conventional, merrily venomous talk - radio ranting, and I would probably have forgotten it a moment afterward if, at the end, the woman speaker had not opined that this «Occupy business» was all a part of the decay of the «traditional Christian values that built this nation» — a judgment to which the other two assented vigorously.

Alongside Novak's picture of the abundance which capitalism produces there needs to be placed another equally significant image — that of decaying, broken - down bus and railway systems; underpaid teachers, policemen, firemen and social workers; overcrowded and understaffed public hospitals; jails and rehabilitation facilities extended far beyond their reasonable capacities.

Should we not concentrate our energies on alleviating the plight of those who are caught in the decay of our present cities, rather than dream of new cities in which these problems would not arise?

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

It was the body which linked him with the animals; it was made of similar flesh and bone, and lived only for the limited period between birth and death, at which point the body fell into decay.

It is true of Aristotle too: the dialectic of act and potency that, for sublunary beings, is inseparable from decay and death, or the scale of essences by which all things — especially various classes of persons — are assigned their places in the natural and social order.

Their changing arrangements give the explanation of all the changes in the appearance of matter, not only the changes as you look at it, but all the changes which occur, such as burning, decay, generation.

Then, and only then, can we contribute creatively to the new vision apart from which the living system on this planet will continue to decay.

When the man's animation fails, he becomes a dead being, which being decays and returns to the ground.

Doesn't the Bible call us to be lights in the darkness, and to bring life and healing to those areas which are full of death and decay?

[Thus] I was always, along with my other work, inwardly occupied with another book, which I entitled Wir Epigonen [which one might translate «We Hangers - on,» and which was finally titled The Decay and Restoration of Civilization][Out of My Life and Thought, pp. 146 f.].

The price which the modern world has paid for the liberation of the French Revolution has been the decay of those organic forms of life which enabled men to live in direct relation with one another and which gave men security, connection, and a feeling of being at home in the - world.

Societies which can not combine reverence for their symbols with freedom of revision must ultimately decay.

If a wall of separation is erected between religion and the state (and its schools), that wall will prove to be a tomb in which church, state, and schools will decay with a civilization that has lost its soul.

A classic instance was the beta - decay of the nucleus, in which experimental data seemed clearly to violate the law of conservation of energy.

However, there is one issue on which the Catholic Church and populist Italian politicians can agree: the moral decay pervading Western society.

For not only does it assign genuine value to nature by incorporating the characteristics of contingency, open - endedness, growth and decay in a general metaphysic, but it also assigns an important place to reason as a means for making explicit our understanding of the general structures which may be said to underlie the world as a whole.