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Radioactivity   /rˈeɪdioʊæktˈɪvəti/  /rˌeɪdioʊæktˈɪvəti/   Listen
Radioactivity

noun
1.
The spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay.  Synonym: radiation.



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"Radioactivity" Quotes from Famous Books



... one subject on which he was particularly eloquent—radioactivity; that most strange property of matter whose discovery had been the crowning glory of science in the closing decade of the nineteenth century. None of us really knew anything about it except what Stonewall taught us. If some new incomprehensible ...
— A Columbus of Space • Garrett P. Serviss


Words linked to "Radioactivity" :   particulate radiation, corpuscular radiation, radioactivity unit, radiation, emission, radioactive


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