radioactivity
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Over that period, the detector recorded around 100 antineutrino candidate events linked to residual radioactivity in the reactor cores and nearby spent-fuel cooling pools.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
But the presence of heavily armed soldiers, security checkpoints, and signs warning of radioactivity are anything but ordinary.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
There, Erikson teased out the stealthy, almost sinister peculiarities of modern man-made hazards, like radioactivity and toxicity, and their special, traumatic effects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
It could release vast amounts of energy with little associated radioactivity.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
Mutations also occur because of radioactivity or ultraviolet light from the Sun or cosmic rays or chemicals in the environment, all of which can change the nucleotides or tie the nucleic acids up in knots.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing radioactivity
Just Do It: Act
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Physics - High School
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act (do)
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