Betekenis van:
half life

half life
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • halveringstijd
  • the time required for something to fall to half its initial value (in particular, the time for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate)

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Hyperoniemen

half life
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • halfwaardetijd
  • the time required for something to fall to half its initial value (in particular, the time for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate)

Synoniemen

Hyperoniemen


Voorbeeldzinnen

  1. Plutonium-244 has a half-life of 80 million years.
  2. Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,100 years.
  3. The better half of my life is gone.
  4. Life is half spent before we know what it is.
  5. Bear in mind that half one's life is lived after forty.
  6. Sleep is the greatest thief, for it steals half one's life.
  7. The old Earl said: "We spend one half of our life in regretting the things we did in the other half."
  8. The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
  9. Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
  10. the half-life in soil is higher than 180.
  11. the half-life in soil is higher than 120 days.
  12. Defining a half-life has therefore no meaning.
  13. the half-life in marine, fresh- or estuarine water is higher than 60 days, or
  14. the half-life in marine, fresh- or estuarine water sediment is higher than 180 days, or
  15. Biodegradation simulation test to determine half-life in the marine environment