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sea of instability

sea of instability noun: the vast body of short-lived isotopes outside the stable or long-lived ones (which form a "curve" on the table of nuclides).

Noun

sea of instability (plural seas of instability)

  1. (nuclear physics) The vast body of short-lived isotopes outside the stable or long-lived ones (which form a "curve" on the table of nuclides).

Forms of sea of instability

pluralseas of instability

Questions about sea of instability

What does sea of instability mean?
Sea of instability means the vast body of short-lived isotopes outside the stable or long-lived ones (which form a "curve" on the table of nuclides).
What part of speech is sea of instability?
Sea of instability is a noun.
What is the plural of sea of instability?
The plural of sea of instability is seas of instability.

Words near sea of instability in the dictionary

  1. Sea of Azoff
  2. Sea of Azoph
  3. Sea of Azov
  4. Sea of Cortez
  5. Sea of Galilee
  6. sea of instability
  7. Sea of Japan
  8. Sea of Marmara
  9. Sea of Moscow
  10. Sea of Okhotsk
  11. Sea of Sodom

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