irradiate
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Eradication was possible through the sterile insect technique, which uses gamma radiation to irradiate screwworm pupae and create sterile male flies.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
The NIF used indirect drive to irradiate a capsule with X-rays using about 2,000 kilojoules of laser energy.
From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024
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
According to the NRC, embrittlement occurs as a result of reactor operation when neutrons from the nuclear fuel irradiate the steel plates and welds used to construct the reactor vessel.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023
Fie continued to provide Segre with metal scraps and even acceded to Segre’s request to irradiate a quantity of uranium oxide mailed from Italy so that he could continue searching for nuclear reactions.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing irradiate
Nuclear Processes
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Physics - High School
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