Categories: Idioms
An example of an idiom used in explaining science:
"The average lifetime of a radioactive particle is always rather more than the half life, because although half of the particles always [sic] decay in the first half life, some of the rest hang around for several half lives before finally giving up the ghost…"
John Gribbin (1996) Companion to the Cosmos. (Ed., Mary Gribbin) Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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