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Home Dictionary Name: half timeHalf life
the time it takes for one half of a substance decaying in a first order reaction to be destroyed For radioactive substances it is the time required for one half of the initial amount of the radioactive isotope to decay The half lifeis a measure of the rate of the reaction being observed For processes that are true first order processes such as radioactive decay the half life is independent of the quantity of material present and it is thus a constant The time it takes for one half the remaining quantity of a radioactive isotope to decay will be the same regardless of how far the decay process has advanced Some chemical reactions are also first order and may be characterized as having a half life However for chemical reactions the half life will depend upon temperature and in some cases other environmental conditions whereas for radioactive isotopes the rate of decay is largely independent of the environment...
Day (aviation: time)
Day (aviation: time), means the time from half an hour before sunrise unit half an hour after sunset (both times exclusive), sunset being determined at surface level, Air Navigation Order 1981, SI 1989/2004, Art. 106(1)(UK), Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 1211, p. 590....
Half-timer
Half-timer. A child, who, by the operation of the Factory and Education Acts, was employed for less than the full time in a factory or workshop, in order that he might attend some 'recognized efficient school.' It is now illegal to employ a child in a factory under the age up to which his parents are obliged to cause him to receive education (English) Education Act, 1918, s. 14; (English) Education Act, 1921, ss. 170 (13), 42, 46; (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 46.In England, a child excused from full time attend-ance at school under the factory and Workshops Act, 1908 so that the child could work part-time in a factory or workshop, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 718....
Sesquialteral
Once and a half times as great as another having the ratio of one and a half to one...
Hydrogen
A gaseous element colorless tasteless and odorless the lightest known substance being fourteen and a half times lighter than air hence its use in filling balloons and over eleven thousand times lighter than water It is very abundant being an ingredient of water and of many other substances especially those of animal or vegetable origin It may by produced in many ways but is chiefly obtained by the action of acids as sulphuric on metals as zinc iron etc It is very inflammable and is an ingredient of coal gas and water gas It is standard of chemical equivalents or combining weights and also of valence being the typical monad Symbol H Atomic weight 1...
Half
Consisting of a moiety or half as a half bushel a half hour a half dollar a half view...
Half blood
Half blood, means two persons one said to be related to each other by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor but by different wives. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956), s. 3(e); Special Marriage Act, 1954, s. 2(b)]The relationship through one only and not through both of the parents or other ancestors. By the old law a relative of the half-blood could not inherit real estate, but this was altered by the Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106). In the succession to personal estate there was no distinction between the whole and the half-blood until 1926, when the Admin. Of Estates Act, 1925, ss. 46 & 47, enacted that the half-blood are only entitled to the distribution of an intestate estate on the total absence of the whole blood in equal degree; see FRATER FRATRI, etc.The relationship existing between persons having the same mother or father, but not both parents in common, Bl...
Half-brother, half-sister
Half-brother, half-sister, a brother or sister by the father's or mother's side only. Marriage with a half-sister of a deceased wife or half-brother of a deceased husband has been legalized; see Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Acts, 1907-1931...
Chlorine
One of the elementary substances commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas two and one half times as heavy as air of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor and exceedingly poisonous It is abundant in nature the most important compound being common salt Sodium chloride It is powerful oxidizing bleaching and disinfecting agent Symbol Cl Atomic weight 354...
Data concerning health
Data concerning health, in Article 8(1) of the Directive was to be given a wide interpretation so as to include information on all aspects, both physical and mental, of the health of an individual, and therefore extended to a statement that a person had injured her foot and was on half-time work on medical grounds, Criminal Proceedings against Lindquist (ECJ), (2004) 2 WLR 1385: (2004) LR 1014 (QB) (Parliament and Council Directive 95/46/EC Art. (8) (UK)...
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