Gamma in a sentence as a noun

But consider, when this is something that contains your flight plan, your maps, and so on, the cost of a stray gamma ray blowing away a byte.

You throw out "gamma distribution" but don't even link to the definition, explain what it is, or explain how and fit into it.

"The gamma distribution is a perfect candidate, since it characterizes most customer bases very well.

As I said, gamma radiation is highly penetrating and heavily ionizing, which means that it damages delicate materials quite easily.

> "Immediately, all eight scientists in the room felt a wave of heat accompanied by a blue glow as the plutonium sphere vomited an invisible burst of gamma and neutron radiation into the room.

The biggest indictment of Branch to me is that since they alpha/beta/gamma/episilon-launched months and months ago, no one I come across in my Twitter feed, Tumblr feed, RSS nor anywhere else uses it; it's something that seems deeply embedded in a Valley bubble.

You can handle Plutonium in a glove box, but with used Thorium fuel containing U-232 you'd need to handle it via robotic manipulators in a heavily shielded area distant from humans, except that gamma radiation kills electronics like nobody's business, which is a bit of a catch-22.

In related news: scientists have discovered that an uncontrolled nuclear reaction over one hundred trillion times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb is releasing radiation of all known varieties, including lethal gamma radiation, and will result in the inevitable exposure of all of the earth's surface within the next twenty-four hours.

Gamma definitions

noun

the 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet

noun

a unit of magnetic field strength equal to one-hundred-thousandth of an oersted

noun

Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524)

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