Thesaurus / decayed
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The best way to estimate the age of a planet’s surface is to analyze its rocks, using the radioactive decay of its elements as a geologic clock.
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The researchers hoped to use it to simulate false vacuum decay and bubble collisions.
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Planets heated their original rocks with the decay of radioactive elements, collisions with asteroids or other planets, and with the leftover heat of their own formation.
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A limited quantum computer, it specializes in solving optimization problems by letting qubits seek out the lowest-energy configuration available — a process not unlike false vacuum decay.
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Because for every hydrocarbon atom that goes into the Earth, an oxygen atom is not used up in the decay process.
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Radioactive decay of elements in the Earth added a lot of heat into the mix, prolonging the cooling time.
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Vacuum decay is the idea that the universe that we are living in is not fully stable.
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That deep, the decay of calcium can create air pockets with 33 to 88 percent hydrogen by volume.
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It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
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Some half-decayed pieces of cloth and portions of wearing apparel were still lying in it.
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WORDS RELATED TO DECAYED
- all the worse for wear
- bare
- bedraggled
- broken-down
- crummy
- cure
- decayed
- decaying
- decrepit
- degenerated
- desolate
- deteriorated
- deteriorating
- dilapidated
- dingy
- disfigured
- disreputable
- dog-eared
- down-at-heel
- faded
- frayed
- gone to seed
- mangy
- meager
- mean
- miserable
- moth-eaten
- neglected
- pitiful
- poor
- pot
- poverty-stricken
- ragged
- ramshackle
- ratty
- rickety
- ruined
- ruinous
- run-down
- rundown
- scrubby
- scruffy
- seedy
- shoddy
- sleazy
- slipshod
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- worn
- worn-out
- worse for wear
- wretched
- bedraggled
- befouled
- besmirched
- black
- blurred
- common
- contaminated
- corrupt
- decayed
- defiled
- desecrated
- dusty
- evil
- feculent
- fetid
- filthy
- foul
- grimy
- impure
- messy
- muddy
- nasty
- polluted
- profaned
- putrescent
- putrid
- rancid
- rank
- rotten
- sloppy
- slovenly
- smeared
- soiled
- sooty
- sordid
- spotted
- squalid
- stable
- stained
- stale
- stinking
- sullied
- tainted
- tarnished
- unhealthful
- vile
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