Medical Definition of Radioactive equilibrium

1. That condition in which the activities of the members of a radioactive chain decrease exponentially in time with the half-life of the chain precursor. Such radioactive equilibrium is only possible when the half-life of the precursor is longer than that of any other chain member. If the precursor half-life is so long that the change in the precursor population during the period of interest can be ignored, all the activities become sensibly equal and the equilibrium is said to be secular, otherwise it is said to be transient. (16 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Radioactive Equilibrium

radio-gramophone
radio-opacity
radio-opaque
radio-phonograph
radioactive
radioactive
radioactively
radioactive atom
radioactive constant
radioactive contamination
radioactive cow
radioactive dating
radioactive decay
radioactive decay
radioactive dust
radioactive equilibrium (current term)
radioactive fallout
radioactive iodide uptake test
radioactive iodine
radioactive iodine excretion test
radioactive iodine test
radioactive iodine uptake test
radioactive isotope
radioactive material
radioactive pollutants
radioactive probe
radioactive thyroxine
radioactive tracer
radioactive tracers
radioactive waste

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