T1/2


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T 1/2

/T 1/2/ half-life.

t 1/2

/t 1/2/ half-life.
Biology The time required for one half of the total amount of a particular substance in a biological system to be degraded by biological processes when the rate of removal is nearly exponential
Nuclear physics The length of time required for one half of a radioactive substance to be biologically eliminated from the body

T1/2

, t1/2
In nuclear medicine, the symbol of half-life of a radioactive substance.