Sentences with phrase «while radioactive decay»

Not exact matches

The idea is that while the or - ganism was alive it had a known amount of each type of carbon, but that once it has died, the amount of one type of carbon decreases at a known rate through a process of radioactive decay.

«I have done a terrible thing,» wrote physicist Wolfgang Pauli in 1930 while investigating a type of radioactive decay.

For example, an electron neutrino — more precisely, an electron antineutrino — emerges when an atomic nucleus such as tritium undergoes a type of radioactive decay called «β decay» and turns into a slightly less massive helium - 3 nucleus while spitting out an electron and an antineutrino.

(All organisms take in carbon - 14, a rare radioactive isotope, while they are living; when they die, the carbon decays at a steady rate.

While the tremendous increase in luminosity is given by energy liberated by the explosion, its gradually fading light is fueled by radioactive cobalt decaying into iron.

While iodine can be radioactive, it normally decays quickly and becomes stable again.