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- adjective UK Alternative spelling of
ionizing . - verb UK Present participle of
ionise .
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Examples
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But a line of explanation went wrong in saying that such rounds "contain ionising radiation to burst through armour".
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Human labourers could not be employed effectively to shovel debris, since workshifts were limited to tiny 90-second intervals due to intensive ionising radiation.
Archive 2009-02-01 Heather McDougal 2009
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Human labourers could not be employed effectively to shovel debris, since workshifts were limited to tiny 90-second intervals due to intensive ionising radiation.
Lunokhod and the Art of Space Heather McDougal 2009
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NASA were concerned about the occurrence of a solar flare en route to the moon; amifostine scavenges the free radicals caused by the passage of ionising radiation through cellular matter, and thereby reduces the chances of such radicals causing irreparable cellular damage.
Jean Toad and swimming in space-time Gordon McCabe 2009
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The city is enduring a legacy of soaring rates of cancer, which a report described as "similar to that in the Hiroshima survivors who were exposed to ionising radiation from the bomb and uranium in the fallout." 20,000 of Iraq's 34,000 registered physicians left the country following the invasion, fewer than 2,000 of them have returned since.
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The city is enduring a legacy of soaring rates of cancer, which a report described as "similar to that in the Hiroshima survivors who were exposed to ionising radiation from the bomb and uranium in the fallout." 20,000 of Iraq's 34,000 registered physicians left the country following the invasion, fewer than 2,000 of them have returned since.
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Earth is filled with incredibly strange creatures, from thermophiles like the one seen here that can survive in temperatures up to 121 degress Celsius to the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans that thrives in 2000 times more ionising radiation than would fry a human.
Boing Boing 2008
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Turns out that colorful feathers (due to carotenoid-based pigments) use up antioxidants, which makes the birds vulnerable to ionising radiation.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Its ionising forces moved back and forth, shattering the bonds.
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The authors warn that female vets of childbearing age “should be fully informed of the possible reproductive effects of ionising radiation, unscavenged anaesthetic gases, and exposure to pesticides.”
Female vets run twice the risk of miscarriage because of anaesthetic gases and pesticides GreenFertility 2008
GHibbs commented on the word ionising
My adjectival use of ionising: 'X-rays are a form of ionising radiation.'
August 22, 2011