Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, exhibiting, or caused by radioactivity.
- adjective Informal Extremely sensitive or controversial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Exhibiting or pertaining to radioactivity (which see): as, radioactive substances.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physics), obsolete Capable of luminescence under the action of cathode rays, X rays, or any of the allied forms of radiation.
- adjective (Physics) of, exhibiting, or caused by
radioactivity .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Exhibiting
radioactivity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective exhibiting or caused by radioactivity
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Examples
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NGUYEN: And hence the term radioactive, which you just referred to.
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Nowadays we label radioactive stuff with a bright yellow trefoil rather than sip it during dinner.
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Uranium and its decay products are both radioactive and toxic and, as they remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years, can cause irreparable damage to the environment and to generations of local communities.
Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010
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The BBC has reported that short-term radioactive iodine has been detected at very high levels in the Pacific Ocean near the plant.
Japan faces new setback in fight to avert disaster at Fukushima plant 2011
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Uranium and its decay products are both radioactive and toxic and, as they remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years, can cause irreparable damage to the environment and to generations of local communities.
Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010
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Uranium and its decay products are both radioactive and toxic and, as they remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years, can cause irreparable damage to the environment and to generations of local communities.
Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010
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(Presumably, the need for a license is a matter of degree, given that our own bodies contain radioactive potassium-40, and given that the walls of most buildings contain the radioactive isotopes from the natural uranium-238 and thorium-232 decay chains).
Archive 2009-04-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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Is “radioactive externalities” the code word for a $Trillion loss of downwind property if a core meltdown occurs and a steam explosion breechs the containment building?
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In 1913 Richards had discovered that the atomic weight of natural lead and of that formed in radioactive decay of uranium minerals differ.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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Uranium and its decay products are both radioactive and toxic and, as they remain radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years, can cause irreparable damage to the environment and to generations of local communities.
Bianca Jagger: Now Is the Time to Move Beyond Petroleum Bianca Jagger 2010
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