Talk:Biological half-life

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[edit] Requested move

The following discussion is an archived vote of an article move. The result was a move. Please do not modify it.
Proposal  : Biological halflife → Biological half-life
Rationale :   The hyphen is standard in dictionaries and in all other half-life articles. This article originally included the hyphen, but was moved in January by a disgruntled Wikipedian. The article should have never been moved in the first place, but it can not be moved back automatically because both articles have associated histories.
Proposer : Teply 06:51, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey and discussion

Please add  * Support  or  * Oppose  followed by a brief explanation, then sign your vote using "~~~~".

  • Support. David Kernow 13:36, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Support. Outriggr 20:32, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Support. CDiakopoulos 13:42, 03 August 2007 (UTC)




[edit] (Biphasic half-lives)

I came here looking for data about biphasic half lives. I'll look elsewhere, perhaps a more informed person will already have contributed info before I'm able to learn and come back.63.227.148.204 12:42, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I certainly hope you find the information you're looking for. When you do, I hope you can summarize it and add it to the article, together with a list of sources it came from. Jonathunder 16:54, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
See one example at PMID 3765661. 69.9.30.178 22:29, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merge

I don't see why there are three distinct articles on half-life plus an article on exponential decay, when they are all variations of the same concept. So, I am proposing some consolidation. From what I can see, at least half of the material is common to all four articles. At minimum, the half-life articles could be combined into one article with sections. Robert A.West (Talk) 00:11, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

See Talk:Half-life#Proposed merge. --Smack (talk) 22:50, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Terminal half-life

http://books.google.com/books?id=1TcUvOPYjKYC&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=%22terminal+half+life%22+%22biological+half+life%22&source=web&ots=Sfs_qZuytk&sig=EqTDWho0B5ixSODhfN6wDEi_kKk

This source says "terminal half-life" is a newer name for "Biological half-life". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.108.154.255 (talk) 14:48, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] tautology ?

"First-order elimination This process is usually a first-order logarithmic process..." Jclerman (talk) 08:02, 30 March 2008 (UTC) "