irradiate
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Instead of using cobalt or other radioactive materials, Wilson’s team uses an X-ray machine to irradiate the pests.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2024
"First, we irradiate the alloy with a strong laser pulse, which magnetizes the material," explains Theo Pflug.
From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2023
Inexplicable fires first obliterate Japanese freighters and irradiate fish, a ripped-from-the-headlines echo of the Lucky Dragon No. 5 incident—a Japanese tuna ship showered in radioactive fallout from the Castle Bravo thermonuclear test at Bikini Atoll.
From Scientific American • Nov. 3, 2023
“This beta radiation is not very penetrating so that practically all of the energy emitted remains within the individual and cannot irradiate anyone else.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023
All his work since then had culminated in a factory that could irradiate two hundred tons of uranium at a time to produce a half pound of plutonium every two hundred days.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing irradiate
Nuclear Processes
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Physics - High School
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