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  • isotopes, but they have such long half-lives that they can be considered ... The most stable of these are 181W, with a half-life of 121.2 days; 185W, with ...
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  • The radioactive isotope with the longest half-life is Y-88 (half-life of 106.65 days), followed by Y-91 (half-life of 58.51 days). Nearly all ...
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  • derived elements are radioactive with short half-lives so that any such atoms ... And in the second half of the twentieth century physics laboratories ...
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  • abundance). The radioisotope 142Ce has a half-life of greater than 5×1016 years. characterized, including 144Ce, with a half-life of 284.893 days; 139Ce ...
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  • entitled The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, which ... ==Early life and slavery== By his own account, Olaudah Equiano's ...
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  • and secular literature in the first half of the nineteenth century ... of thinking and feeling pervaded Belinsky’s life. In 1934, Belinsky ...
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  • allowing visitors to have an experience of life in ancient times. ... of which he worked on for the rest of his life. Following the Greek legend ...
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  • the East Indies, will be lessened more than half, and the consumption of European ... is estimated that between a quarter and a half of the total wealth of Scotland ...
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  • trace nutrient in all known forms of life. On the other hand, excess ... of which the most stable is 53Mn, with a half-life of 3.7 million years. The ...
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  • longest-lived radioisotopes are 143Pr, with a half-life of 13.57 days, and 142Pr, with a half-life of 19.12 hours. All the remaining radioactive isotopes ...
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  • Its most stable isotope, Ra-226, has a half-life of 1,602 years and decays ... longest-lived isotope of radium, with a half-life of 1,602 years. The next ...
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  • Chromium is mined as chromite (FeCr2O4) ore. Roughly half this ore ... with the most stable being 50Cr with a half-life greater than 1.8x1017 years ...
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  • repaired and appeared crooked for his entire life. He became interested ... famous images, "Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park ...
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  • Leucippus or Leukippos (first half of the fifth century b.c.e.) was ... Nothing was known about his life. Epicurus doubted his very existence ...
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  • farnesol. The sesqui- prefix means one and a half. * Diterpenes are ... sizes of terpenes. The sester- prefix means half to three, in other words, ...
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  • Fenton and others. Fenton spent three-and-a-half months in the Crimea, March ... Mathew Brady's efforts just over half a decade later to document ...
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  • "anticipate ragtime and jazz by a half century." It could be ... by the critics of the time. Throughout his life, Gottschalk used a variety ...
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  • great Asian scholars. During the first half of the twentieth century, ... from East to West during the first half of the twentieth century, ...
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  • begins. The head represents about one half of the embryo's axial ... Category:Life sciences Category:Anatomy and physiology 118693390 ...
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  • (woodpeckers and relatives) make up about half. In general, the Piciformes ... tail is rounded and varies in length, from half the length to the whole length ...
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