Effective half-life

Effective half-life called

• an approximate half-life that describes the decrease in the amount of a radioactive substance in a living organism, see Half-life # Effective half-life
• the real radioactive half-life to the difference from the fictitious, non-observable partial half-life of one of several radioactive decay channels, see decay channel # Partial half-life

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.