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<physics, radiobiology> The fraction of the amount of a radionuclide that undergoes transition per unit time. Formally:
Lamda=dP/dt
Where dP is the probability of a given nucleus undergoing spontaneous nuclear transition in the time interval dt.
(16 Dec 1997)
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