The art form reached its height during the Renaissance, when micro-mosaics were created for St.Peter's Basilica in Vatican City because traditional altar paintings were decaying from humidity and other environmental factors.

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It has a half-life of approximately three years at which time it stops decaying.

它生命的一半是三年,在三年的时候，它就停止衰亡。

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Suppose we've got some sort of radioactive atom, which has a certain chance of decaying.

假定我们有某种放射性原子,它们以一定的几率衰变

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We turn into pieces of rotting flesh, decaying.

我们变成一片片腐肉，渐渐腐烂。

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