English-Czech translations for half-life

• poločas rozpadu
  Ještě dnes můžeme najít kontaminaci v potravinách vyráběných v oblastech Ukrajiny, které byly vystaveny radioaktivnímu cesiu 137 - izotopu, který má poločas rozpadu 30 let. Even today, contamination is to be found in food produced in the regions of Ukraine which were exposed to radioactive caesium 137 - an isotope which has a half-life of 30 years.

Definition of half-life

• The time required for half of the nuclei in a sample of a specific isotope to undergo radioactive decay
• The time it takes for a substance to lose half of its pharmacological, physiologic, or radiological activity

Related words

• half-line
• half-light
• radioactive half-life