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Half-life
A measure of the rate of decay of radioactive material. In one half-life, the material decays, or loses one half of its radioactivity. In the next half-life interval, the material loses one half of that which is left. The half-life of various types of radioactive materials varies from a few microseconds (millionths of a second) up to billions of years.
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