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decay constant
(Science: physics, radiobiology) The fraction of the amount of a radionuclide that undergoes transition per unit time. Formally:
Lamda=dP/dt
Where dP is the probability of a given nucleus undergoing spontaneous nuclear transition in the time interval dt.
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