Radioactivity Synonyms

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The spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. radiation
  2. radiant-energy
  3. radioactive particles
  4. Roentgen rays

Words Related to Radioactivity

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. energy
  2. fallout
  3. technetium
  4. caesium-137
  5. tritium
  6. radioactive
  7. radionuclide
  8. fission-products
  9. strontium-90
  10. cobalt-60
  11. contaminant
  12. natural-radioactivity

Radioactivity Sentence Examples

  • No specific standard radioactivity total indicative dose tritium Anglian Water supplies have been assessed as very low risk.

  • The waste contains some 20.5 million curies of radioactivity.

  • Radioactivity is a major concern where plasterboard is made from synthetic gypsum.

  • Modern researches (see Radioactivity) on the complex nature of the atom have a little shaken the belief in the absolute permanence of matter.

  • But modern discoveries in radioactivity 2 are in favour of the existence of the atom, although they lead to the belief that the atom is not so eternal and unchangeable a thing as Dalton and his predecessors imagined, and in fact, that the atom itself may be subject to that eternal law of growth and decay of which Lucretius speaks.

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