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- Energy produced by reaction within the solar core is initially in the form of high-energy gamma rays.† (source)
- They went right on through us as if they were gamma rays.† (source)
- When microorganisms are zapped with low levels of gamma rays or x-rays, they are not killed, but their DNA is disrupted, and they cannot reproduce.† (source)
- Primary ship weapons were fusion-pumped visible light, X-ray and gamma ray lasers.† (source)
- Gamma rays are used to irradiate food, sterilize medical equipment, and scan cargo containers.
- And they sported five-hundred-terawatt gamma ray lasers as their main armament.† (source)
- After a long period of successive absorption and re-emission (a photon might take a thousand years to leave the sun), gamma rays become x-rays, extreme ultraviolet, ultraviolet, then eventually turn into visible light and other forms of radiation.† (source)
- From there, they worked north and south with Lauritsen electroscopes, which are sensitive to both beta rays and gamma rays.† (source)
- The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.† (source)
- They thought that perhaps gamma rays, entering the body at the time of the explosion, made the phosphorus in the victim's bones radio-active, and that they in turn emitted beta particles, which, though they could not penetrate far through flesh, could enter the bone marrow, where blood is manufactured, and gradually tear it down.† (source)
- In the present paper it is shown that Xrays, gamma rays, and beta rays produce identical inactivating effects on this bacteriophage.† (source)
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- But Holabird was won by the scientific world's reception of Martin's first important paper, on the effect of X-rays, gamma rays, and beta rays on the anti-Shiga phage.† (source)
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