radiation

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The state of a core bit will not change when bombarded by radiation in Outer Space.

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energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles

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noun

energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles

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the act of spreading outward from a central source

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syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours; "he was suffering from radiation"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for radiation.

noun

energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles

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the act of spreading outward from a central source

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the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay

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the spread of a group of organisms into new habitats

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a radial arrangement of nerve fibers connecting different parts of the brain

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(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance

Example sentences

The state of a core bit will not change when bombarded by radiation in Outer Space.

You can tell me about how the scanners give harmless amounts of radiation, but I don't really care.

...of course, the radiation levels have been in the "normal" zone for Tokyo since a week or two after the accident.

And claims that people far closer to the disaster, with presumed far higher radiation exposures [2], are relatively safe.

You get a higher dose of radiation at high altitudes amounting to a few tens of microsievert's for a decently long flight.

Experimenters shouldn't get their hopes up too far: Some forms of radiation are extremely penetrating/hard to shield, and some hazardous isotopes live a long, long time.

>A single CT scan exposes a patient to the amount of radiation that epidemiologic evidence shows can be cancer-causingThat does not look right to me.

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.

Here's numbers and a primary source [0]:"For perspective, the maximum potential radiation dose received by any ship's force personnel aboard the ship when it passed through the area was less than the radiation exposure received from about one month of exposure to natural background radiation from sources such as rocks, soil, and the sun."Meaning ~300 uSv, or three orders of magnitude short of acute radiation poisoning [1].