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Methane spends a lot less time in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide; about 20 years after it's released, most of it will have decayed, while carbon dioxide lingers in the atmosphere for hundreds of years.

A national survey from 2020 to 2021 found that 14.8% of the state’s children ages 1 to 17 had decayed teeth or cavities in the last 12 months studied — ranking 47th out of 51 among all the states and the District of Columbia, with only Louisiana and Wyoming faring worse.

The k track was the mirror image of a particle seen before by colleagues in Manchester, but the Manchester team's track decayed into two pions, not three.

"However, very quickly that inflammatory response decayed, and then from that point you do not have this fibrosis formation."

Cratons are believed to have formed between 3 and 2.5 billion years ago -- a time when radioactive elements like uranium would have decayed at a rate about twice as fast and released twice as much heat as today.