English Explanatory Dictionary

branching ratio

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In radioactivity, the portion of all decays that take a given pathway. For example, californium-252 decays by alpha decay ~97% of the time, and by spontaneous fission ~3% of the time; so the branching ratio is about 0.97 in favor of alpha decay, and about 0.03 in favor spontaneous fission.

Word forms

branching ratio branching ratios
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