Assertion: protactinium's life | /r/HasProperty | short
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: They chose the name because the half life of the isotope they found was very short ("brief").
text: The half life of protactinium is extremely short, some isotopes have half lives of less than 1.8 seconds, and so it is difficult to produce and store.
text: They chose the name because the half life of the isotope they found was very short ("brief").
text: The half life of the isotope is short enough that students can complete the decay curve within a single lesson and is perfect for use with a datalogger and GM tube sensor or a standard GM tube and counter.
text: They chose the name because the half life of the isotope they found was very short ("brief").
text: The half-life of 239Np is very short, although the detection of its much longer-lived daughter 239Pu in nature in 1951 definitively established its natural occurrence.