exponential decay
Radioactive isotope behavior
Exponential decay describes a quantity that decreases at a rate proportional to its current value—the more there is, the faster it shrinks.
Radioactive materials decay exponentially, losing half their mass in each half-life.
The term extends to anything that diminishes rapidly at first, then tapers: Interest in the scandal showed exponential decay after the first week.
- downtickSmall reduction in amount
- radioactivitySpontaneous nuclear decay
- fadeoutGradual disappearance effect
- fading awayGradual disappearance from perception
- dying downDecreasing in force
half-life · drop · learning curve · attenuation · isotope · nuclear fallout · differential equation · mathematical model · physics · carbon-14 dating · natural logarithm · chemistry · atomic nucleus · radiometric dating · radionuclide · entropy · drop-off · logarithmic scale
- math termsnumbers, plus or minus, linear growth, square, operand
- decayrot, wilt, crumble, decomposition, fade
- asymptoticsorder of magnitude, growth rate, linear growth, blowup, infinity
- decreasing functions
- exponentse, squared, cubed, power of two, power of ten
- radioactive decayhalf-life, disintegration, transmutation, specific activity, activity
exponential decayexponential growth
Quantity multiplying proportionally over time
geometric growth · compound growth · growth · increase · accumulation
exponential decayequilibrium
State of balance
stability · steady state · constancy · stasis · permanence
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