Assertion: technetium's life | /r/HasProperty | useful
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: 99Mo has a half-life of 66 hours and can be easily transported over long distances to hospitals where its decay product technetium-99m (with a half-life of only 6 hours, inconvenient for transport) is extracted and used for a variety of nuclear medicine diagnostic procedures, where its short half-life is very useful.