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The solution to this equation is given in the previous section, where the sum of is treated as a new total decay constant .

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Partial mean life associated with individual processes is by definition the multiplicative inverse of corresponding partial decay constant: . A combined can be given in terms of s:

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This is the Harmonic mean of and . Since half-lives differ from mean life by a constant factor,

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