noun
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short
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These effects are less marked with fentanyl because of its shorter serum half-life .
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The daily intake should be divided into at least three doses because of the short half-life .
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The third isotope of hydrogen, hydrogen-3 or tritium, is highly radioactive and has a very short half-life .
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But it has a half-life of just 140 days so there can be little delay manufacture and its incorporation into a bomb.
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No one has a long half-life as the star of the program.
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The daily intake should be divided into at least three doses because of the short half-life .
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The more complete descriptive term is drug elimination half-life .
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The time it takes for a dose of a drug to wear off is measured by a value called a half-life .
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The time taken for half of the atoms of a radioactive isotope to decay is called its half-life .
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These effects are less marked with fentanyl because of its shorter serum half-life .
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With a half-life of 12 years, tritium could build up in the Tamar estuary and eventually enter the human food chain.