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In nuclear physics, secular equilibrium is a situation in which the quantity of a radioactive isotope remains constant because its production rate (e.g., due to decay of a parent isotope) is equal to its decay rate.

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Secular equilibrium

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In nuclear physics, secular equilibrium is a situation in which the quantity of a radioactive isotope remains constant because its production rate (e...

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Transient equilibrium

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daughter is shorter than the half-life of the parent. Contrary to secular equilibrium, the half-life of the daughter is not negligible compared to parent's...

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List of types of equilibrium

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state where the energy radiated is balanced by the energy absorbed Secular equilibrium, a state of radioactive elements in which the production rate of...

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Iodine pit

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and vice versa. During reactor operation at a given power level, a secular equilibrium is established within 40–50 hours, when the production rate of iodine-135...

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Plutonium

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occurs in the decay chain of 244Pu, it must thus also be present in secular equilibrium, albeit in even tinier quantities. Minute traces of plutonium are...

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Thorium

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shorter-lived; of them, only 230Th is usually detectable, occurring in secular equilibrium with its parent 238U, and making up at most 0.04% of natural thorium...

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Yttrium

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64 hours, respectively. Though 90Y has a short half-life, it exists in secular equilibrium with its long-lived parent isotope, strontium-90 (90Sr) with a half-life...

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Bateman equation

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List of equations in nuclear and particle physics Transient equilibrium Secular equilibrium Pharmacokinetics, loose applicability Rutherford, E. (1905)...

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Alkaline earth metal

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reactors running on uranium-235 or plutonium-239 fuel, and a minuscule secular equilibrium concentration is also present due to rare spontaneous fission decays...

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Gamma spectroscopy

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produced by 137m Ba , the decay product of 137 Cs , which is in secular equilibrium with 137 Cs . The spectrum in Figure 1 was measured using a NaI-crystal...

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Isotopic signature

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ratio in all natural samples with ~0.72% 235 U some 55 ppm 234 U (in secular equilibrium with its parent nuclide 238 U) and the balance made up by 238 U....

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Nuclear forensics

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This strategy may not apply when the parent-daughter pair achieve secular equilibrium very rapidly or when the half-life of the daughter nuclide is significantly...

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Isostasy

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ísos 'equal', stásis 'standstill') or isostatic equilibrium is the state of gravitational equilibrium between Earth's crust (or lithosphere) and mantle...

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Relaxation

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Relaxation stands quite generally for a release of tension, a return to equilibrium. Look up relaxation or relaxed in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikiquote...

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Equatorial bulge

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system. When the equilibrium state has been reached then large scale conversion of kinetic energy to heat ceases. In that sense the equilibrium state is the...

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Tidal acceleration

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component and the remainder from other components, both lunar and solar. An equilibrium tidal bulge does not really exist on Earth because the continents do...

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Tubutulik River

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abundances under the assumption that the Uranium decay series are in secular equilibrium. "2013 Communities". Norton Bay Intertribal Watershed Council– Norton...

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Maclaurin spheroid

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be the simplest model of rotating ellipsoidal figures in hydrostatic equilibrium since it assumes uniform density. For a spheroid with equatorial semi-major...

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Capitalism

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equilibrium refers to a state where economic forces such as supply and demand are balanced and in the absence of external influences the (equilibrium)...

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Free market

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founders of the neoclassical economics who helped formulate the general equilibrium theory, had a very similar view. He argued that free competition could...

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