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- noun Alternative spelling of
half-life .
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A halflife is the time it takes for half a radioactive particle to decay, and it is pretty systematic.
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2004
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GOLDBERG: Snail mail may be doomed, but it's going to have a real halflife, which is going to make mail more expensive because you're going to have smaller economies and it's going to be more difficult.
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This time, which is generally known as the "halflife" can vary between thousands of millions of years (for uranium) down to fractions of
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Strange, I never thought it was that great, it did have some good moments, and had a lot going for it, but the astetic, setting, story, and character design left something to be desired ... granted that's all up to opinion, and I would have loved it had they just coated the halflife 2 story and design over with Killzone's.
"Citizen Killzone" SVGL 2009
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Before reprocessing begins, the rods are stored in water filled tanks for several weeks while the short-halflife radio-isotopes decay.
Should the Israelis Arrest Benny Morris? « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Retroactive 8bit halflife art:
Retroactive 8bit halflife art Alice 2009
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| Reply runs almost as smooth as halflife did back then on my old pc
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Great lego animaton for HL1. 2007
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All I can say to that is that the halflife of celebrity is clearly short online.
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All I can say to that is that the halflife of celebrity is clearly short online.
Operation Global Media Domination: BoingBoingSplat « raincoaster 2007
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IOW, if you have a charcoal sample and you date it as 4129 BP based on the known halflife of C14 and the present or at least recent C14 level you can go to a book or online table and convert to a true date.
Potential Academic Misconduct by the Euro Team « Climate Audit 2006
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