radioactive decay

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Noun

radioactive decay (countable and uncountable, plural radioactive decays)

  1. (nuclear physics) Any of several processes by which unstable nuclei emit subatomic particles and/or ionizing radiation and disintegrate into one or more other nuclei.

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