decay
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We began to roll past dead and dying trees in various stages of decay.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
Cigarette butts litter the floor, moldy food is left to decay on greasy dishes and the ceiling is stained with candle soot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
In these reactions, atomic nuclei repeatedly absorb neutrons and then undergo radioactive decay until they reach stable forms.
From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026
This limits event risk and harnesses time decay, the term for how options lose value each day closer to expiration.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
Instead, Voyager relies on a small nuclear power plant, drawing hundreds of watts from the radioactive decay of a pellet of plutonium.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing decay
Earth Science - Middle School
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Rocks and Minerals - Introductory
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Earth Science: Natural Resources and the Environment
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