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  • I'd forgotten all about the radioactive dinosaurs!†   (source)
  • This bow tie is radioactive.†   (source)
  • Particle accelerators sear the land, and leave radioactive byproducts.†   (source)
  • I feared how I would have to store them in my brain, plastic explosives or radioactive wastes that would mutate or even wipe out everything else in there.†   (source)
  • We have radioactive isotope scanners, olfactory filters designed by the American DEA to detect the faintest chemical signatures of combustibles and toxins.†   (source)
  • It's so radioactive that it will get red hot all by itself.†   (source)
  • She felt radioactive.†   (source)
  • Henrietta's tumor was the invasive type, and like hospitals nationwide, Hopkins treated all invasive cervical carcinomas with radium, a white radioactive metal that glows an eerie blue.†   (source)
  • No radioactivity, no mess.†   (source)
  • He's painting it with that radioactive quality because he wants to draw our eye to it —make it jump out at us.†   (source)
  • The gloves were bright pink, and they glowed in a cheery, radioactive sort of way.†   (source)
  • Sculpted by the intense solar rays, glowing a radioactive shadow, the towers reared like giant shark teeth out of the Surface of turquoise, -who'd been over rounding rubble as far as the eye could see.†   (source)
  • Everything became radioactive green.†   (source)
  • It's a heavy gas, it says, radioactive, dangerous to your lungs.†   (source)
  • Um, well, bitten by a radioactive spider?†   (source)
  • They enter the Buy 'n' Fly's nimbus of radioactive blue security light.†   (source)
  • Pressurized air within the complex prevents contamination by radioactive fallout and biological weapons.†   (source)
  • Cancerous solvents from storage tanks, arsenic from smokestacks, radioactive water from power plants.†   (source)
  • The sarcophagus was glowing like something radioactive, heading for meltdown.†   (source)
  • His face under the orange spray tan was red, giving him a radioactive palette.†   (source)
  • "It's just that it's dangerous to get near the radioactive materials," her mother called out from where she stood in front of the mirror, fixing her hair.†   (source)
  • Just like the magnetic resonance imagery picks up electronic signals, this picks up radioactive signals and translates them into images.†   (source)
  • True, there were still unexplained phenomena such as radioactivity, transmission of light through the "ether," and the peculiar relationship of magnetic to electric forces; but these, if past trends were any indication, had eventually to fall.†   (source)
  • Oh, finally, that radioactive mac and cheese.†   (source)
  • I heard new vocabulary: nuclear bomb, radioactive fallout, bomb shelter.†   (source)
  • The only radioactivity was in the inside loop.†   (source)
  • Do you know how many tons of radioactive crap will move through Carson City?†   (source)
  • "What if someone were to blow it up, maybe release the radioactivity, if there's any left in there?"†   (source)
  • We were practically radioactive.†   (source)
  • If she seemed distant before, she now seemed to view him as radioactive.†   (source)
  • The remaining malakhim and even Max's clones backed away from the boy as if he were radioactive.†   (source)
  • I picked the light one, yet still felt positively radioactive as I walked down the gray, wet sidewalk, boldly contrasting with everything around me.†   (source)
  • He dreamed that whitecoats took blood, injected him with various drugs to see how he reacted, made him run and jump and then swallow radioactive dye so they could study his circulation.†   (source)
  • Millions more would die later from the radioactive fallout.†   (source)
  • If you don't want me to know why you're acting like Annie Kate's radioactive, then you don't have to tell me.†   (source)
  • It was radioactive green, with a pattern of hollow squares, like yellow leopard spots, all along its length.†   (source)
  • We warned that our bombs would be as destructive as H— bombs but emphasized that there would be no radioactive fallout, no killing radiation—just a terrible explosion, shock wave in air, ground wave of concussion.†   (source)
  • More important than anything he had listed was water, free of dangerous bacilli, unpolluted by poisons human, chemical, or radioactive.†   (source)
  • Without our intervention, the Earth today would be a radioactive wilderness.†   (source)
  • But consider something else: sure, it's true that a sampling of the mantle would provide some answers to questions involving radioactivity and heat flow, geological structure and the age of the Earth.†   (source)
  • He attempted to report this to Pearl Harbor in a signal but got no reply; he carried on, the radioactivity increasing as he neared the Philippines.†   (source)
  • At night the ruined city gave of a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles.†   (source)
  • Radioactive particles were leaking out of the power plant.   (source)
    radioactive = producing a stream of atomic particles through nuclear decay
  • Soon you'll be no more than a cloud of radioactive molecules.'†   (source)
  • Raven goes back to his radioactive hog, releases a few bungee cords, and picks up a metal briefcase.†   (source)
  • They didn't want to put astronauts next to a glowing hot ball of radioactive death!†   (source)
  • But I thought that the buggers burned that to a radioactive. ah.†   (source)
  • It could be radioactive steam, chemical cloudlets, a haze of unknown origin.†   (source)
  • A radioactive substance that makes heat.†   (source)
  • The radioactive element used in the core was solinium 2, which had a half-life of fourteen seconds.†   (source)
  • Otherwise the stop zone could end up as just so much ash and radioactive slop.†   (source)
  • Hanging at his side, the scepter of Diocletian glowed angry purple, like a radioactive bruise.†   (source)
  • He used to work with radioactive materials inside a sealed glove box.†   (source)
  • But the levels of radioactivity are low.†   (source)
  • The reactor coolant, which carried short-lived but dangerous radioactivity, never flashed to steam.†   (source)
  • So they release some radioactivity into the air in Drake?†   (source)
  • In a minute there was a meter-wide puddle of radioactive slag, enough to form its own critical mass.†   (source)
  • There might have been some radioactivity left behind, but that was it.†   (source)
  • So what if Drake, West Virginia, went radioactive?†   (source)
  • Blowing up a nuke reactor could make all of Trent's coal mines radioactive.†   (source)
  • They're both radioactive at the highly enriched level.†   (source)
  • There'd be nothing left of either one except radioactive dust.†   (source)
  • The concrete dome was put in because some of the material they handled there was radioactive.†   (source)
  • That would have made five or six states radioactive.†   (source)
  • At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles.†   (source)
  • She lifted the pages as if she were handling a tray of radioactive material.†   (source)
  • We wouldn't send troopers out through a hole so radioactive that mere exit would kill them.†   (source)
  • On shore, of course, ground radioactivity would still be intense.†   (source)
  • You can eat or drink radioactive matter, like strontium 90 in milk.†   (source)
  • Radioactivity was uniformly high, so that they judged it prudent to keep the hull submerged.†   (source)
  • Diamonds, emeralds, pearls, tinkly little bracelets, all hot, all radioactive.†   (source)
  • If Jorgensen is right, there should be much less radioactivity up there.†   (source)
  • By nightfall, they would be stopped outside the radioactive shambles of Jacksonville.†   (source)
  • Most of the radioactive particles decay pretty fast, you know.†   (source)
  • Alcohol, taken internally, seems to increase the tolerance to radioactivity.†   (source)
  • It's nothing to do with radioactivity, is it?†   (source)
  • She held out her left hand to show the black circle left by the radioactive diamond ring.†   (source)
  • They didn't say much in the report, just the readings of the radioactivity.†   (source)
  • It just means that the Grand Prix might be won by the chap with the best tolerance to radioactivity.†   (source)
  • Someone had told him about the resistance of the rabbit to radioactive infection.†   (source)
  • So in January the northern winds carry the radioactive dust from the fall-out down into Malaya, say.†   (source)
  • I wouldn't like to run out of air, and have to surface in the radioactive area or suffocate.†   (source)
  • The radioactive elements may be getting absorbed by something.†   (source)
  • Has anybody been into the radioactive area before, Dwight?†   (source)
  • Are you anticipating a rise in the radioactive level inside the hull?†   (source)
  • Has anyone been up into the radioactive areas since the war stopped?†   (source)
  • I understand you've been up in the radioactive area.†   (source)
  • There was nobody there, but on his desk there was the daily report of radioactive infection.†   (source)
  • This door, this spanner—everything's getting touched with radioactive dust.†   (source)
  • A new technique, developed by the Titan Corporation, uses conventional electricity and an electronic accelerator instead of radioactive isotopes.†   (source)
  • And no radioactivity?†   (source)
  • This also meant that instead of staying in the lab *PET (Positron Emission Tomography) uses radioactive substances that can be metabolized by cells and gives off radioactive signals that can he picked up and translated.†   (source)
  • On the opposite wall, graffiti: smiley face and arrows, Warning Radioactive, stenciled lightning bolt with the word Shazam, dripping horror-movie letters, keep it nice!†   (source)
  • Maybe it was because we had such a great war going on and I was kind of nervous about who'd win, but this stupid stuff made sense, so instead of digging each one of the couple hundred dead dinosaurs a grave we dug one giant hole and buried all the radioactive ones in it, then we put a big rock on top so no radioactivity could leak out.†   (source)
  • On the other wall were stenciled doors, like offices: PARK WARDEN … GUEST SERVICES … GENERAL MANAGER…… Halfway down the corridor they came to a glass partition marked with another sign: [picture] Underneath were more signs: CAUTION Teratogenic Substances Pregnant Women Avoid Exposure To This Area DANGER Radioactive Isotopes In Use Carcinogenic Potential Tim grew more excited all the time.†   (source)
  • A lovely lump of plutonium so radioactive it gives off 1500 watts of heat, which it uses to harvest 100 watts of electricity.†   (source)
  • Most irradiating facilities have concrete walls that are six feet thick, employing cobalt 60 or cesium 137 (a waste product from nuclear weapons plants and nuclear power plants) to create highly charged, radioactive beams.†   (source)
  • I got to the battleground and saw the three radioactive graves, but when I moved the rock on the first one and dug a little bit down I didn't hit one dinosaur, not one!†   (source)
  • However safe it may be, it's still a radioactive core and NASA didn't want it too close to their astronauts.†   (source)
  • — Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear. throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown.†   (source)
  • It was the radioactiveness.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was because we had such a great war going on and I was kind of nervous about who'd win, but this stupid stuff made sense, so instead of digging each one of the couple hundred dead dinosaurs a grave we dug one giant hole and buried all the radioactive ones in it, then we put a big rock on top so no radioactivity could leak out.†   (source)
  • In Reality, people work with dangerous substances all the time-radioactive isotopes and toxic chemicals.†   (source)
  • Cheap, nasty franchises all tend to adopt logos with a lot of bright, hideous yellow in them, and so Alameda Street is clearly marked out before him, a gout of radioactive urine ejected south from the dead center of LA.†   (source)
  • The faith that replaces God with radioactivity, the power of alpha particles and the all-knowing systems that shape them, the endless fitted links.†   (source)
  • The apple didn't look like much—just a shriveled Golden Delicious—but Sam held it gingerly, as if it were radioactive.†   (source)
  • His grinning face was darkly tanned, which might have been the result of standing on a radioactive bridge for thousands of years.†   (source)
  • One advertised Korean/Brazilian fusion tacos, which sounded like some kind of top-secret radioactive cuisine.†   (source)
  • He infused the radioactive tagging substance, a magnesium isotope, into the monkey and calibrated the scanner.†   (source)
  • Rather than walking across a slick, solid surface, I felt like we were wading through a waist-high field of wheat …. if that wheat were made of highly radioactive light.†   (source)
  • You'll be off orders then, and I'll be checking to make sure your squad is complete with a senior private who walks like a duck and carries an M-I like it was radioactive.†   (source)
  • Burton stood in the room that housed the spectrometer along with several other pieces of equipment for radioactivity assays, ratio-density photometry, thermocoupling analysis, and preparation for X-ray crystallography.†   (source)
  • I actually felt a little nauseated, sitting there, a condition exacerbated when I turned on the desk lamp, which had an orange shade and made everything seem even more radioactive.†   (source)
  • Marvin said, "Which the whole thing is interesting because when they make an atomic bomb, listen to this, they make the radioactive core the exact same size as a baseball."†   (source)
  • But when a B-52 and a tanker collided during routine refueling, earlier this year, and four hydrogen bombs came crashing to earth on the Spanish coast, releasing radioactive materials, Clyde had to deinitiate all discussions.†   (source)
  • The water was dangerously radioactive as a result of the fission reaction taking place within the uranium fuel rods.†   (source)
  • I talk to them about the vacated military bases being converted to landfill use, about the bunker system under a mountain in Nevada that will or will not accommodate thousands of steel canisters of radioactive waste for ten thousand years.†   (source)
  • You get Raytheon to your place and convince her the whole world's about to go zippo and astonishingly it works and within minutes she's standing naked in your living room and she is all ovals and loops, like the Palmer handwriting method, and so blond she could be radioactive.†   (source)
  • She sees the shock wave and hears the high winds and feels the power of false faith, the faith of paranoia, and then the mushroom cloud spreads around her, the pulverized mass of radioactive debris, eight miles high, ten miles, twenty, with skirted stem and smoldng platinum cap.†   (source)
  • …the desert near some test site, ants the size of bookmobiles—these were movies for the drive-ins of the fifties, a boy and girl yanking at each other's buckles and snaps while the bomb footage unfurls and the giant leeches and scorpions appear on the horizon, all radioactive and seeking revenge, and the fleeing crowds, of course, because in the end these creatures not only come from the bomb but displace it, and the armies mobilize and the crowds flee and the sirens wail like sirens.†   (source)
  • But plutonium is super-radioactive.†   (source)
  • He didn't know if the stuff belching from the Bunker was radioactive or not, and at the moment he didn't care.†   (source)
  • It could be radioactive.†   (source)
  • The Dalai Lama might have bombed the whiskers off the rest of the World and the Gates may be radioactive ruins.†   (source)
  • Yes, I agree that the Bugs' planet possibly could have been plastered with H-bombs until it was surfaced with radioactive glass.†   (source)
  • He's radioactive debris on Klendathu and it's much too late to court-martial him, so why talk about it?†   (source)
  • The Navy had plastered the islands and that unoccupied part of the continent until they were radioactive glaze; we could tackle Bugs with no worries about our rear.†   (source)
  • I think what Randy meant was that the ring has been exposed to radioactivity and is now radioactive itself.†   (source)
  • Even a reasonably clean weapon on Patrick would have rained radioactive particles on Fort Repose, but the enemy had not bothered to hit Patrick.†   (source)
  • I think what Randy meant was that the ring has been exposed to radioactivity and is now radioactive itself.†   (source)
  • In addition, in this case we must get rid of radioactive material that can be dangerous to anyone who finds it.†   (source)
  • He attempted to accept the probability that the Treasury in Washington, Wall Street, and Federal Reserve banks everywhere, all were now radioactive ash.†   (source)
  • They're radioactive.†   (source)
  • Radioactive carbon.†   (source)
  • It's radioactive.†   (source)
  • He found a high level of radioactivity —atmospheric radioactivity—over the whole area, greater in the north than in the south, as you'd expect.†   (source)
  • If Jorgensen is correct, as you go north from the equator the atmospheric radioactivity should be steady for a time and then begin to decrease.†   (source)
  • In the Balintang Channel he found much dust and the radioactivity far above the lethal level, the wind being westerly, force 4 to 5.†   (source)
  • You don't think much of what the aeroplane found out—the reduced rate of increase of the radioactivity as you go north?†   (source)
  • Atmospheric radioactivity was still increasing, buttowards the northern end of the flight it was increasing slowly.†   (source)
  • The atmospheric radioactivity was rather less here though still above the danger level; he did not care to surface or go up on to the bridge.†   (source)
  • But if the electricity supply failed, or the radioactivity spread south more quickly than the wise men estimated ….†   (source)
  • There's a school of thought among the scientists, a section of them, who consider that this atmospheric radioactivity may be dissipating—decreasing in intensity, fairly quickly.†   (source)
  • In that case the ground masses of the Northern Hemisphere would continue to be uninhabitable for many centuries, but the transfer of radioactivity to us would be progressively decreased.†   (source)
  • Presently, as time passed, the radioactivity would pass also; with a cobalt half-life of about five years these streets and houses would be habitable again in twenty years at the latest, and probably sooner than that.†   (source)
  • You mean—the radioactivity?†   (source)
  • On the fourth day, somewhere north of Iwo Jima, he came to periscope depth for an inspection of the empty sea as was his routine in each watch of the daylight hours and found the visibility to be extremely low, apparently with some sort of dust; at the same time the detector on his periscope head indicated a high level of radioactivity.†   (source)
  • He told us this and that, and among other things he wanted us to find out all we could about the bird life in the radioactive area.†   (source)
  • I shouldn't think it's anything but flu, but he has been in the radioactive area for over a month, and he hasn't seen a doctor since he got back.†   (source)
  • The liaison officer said, "It's going to boil down to a report on Honest John's radioactive readings."†   (source)
  • I think you can recover, if you get out of the radioactive area into a hospital where you get proper treatment.†   (source)
  • The scientist wondered how long the immunity from radioactive disease conferred by alcohol would last.†   (source)
  • Nothing of a radioactive nature.†   (source)
  • It was very radioactive, was it?†   (source)
  • I'm to make observations and keep records of the radioactive levels, atmospheric and marine, with special reference to the subsurface levels and radioactive intensity within the hull.†   (source)
  • Here the radioactive level was so low as to be practically normal; he surfaced in a moderate sea, blew out the ship with clean air, charged his tanks, and let the crew up on the bridge in batches.†   (source)
  • Apart from the radioactive information gathered by John Osborne, they had learned nothing, unless it was the purely negative information that Cairns looked exactly as it always had before.†   (source)
  • According to that theory, the radioactive elements in the atmosphere will be falling to the ground, or to the sea, more quickly than we had anticipated.†   (source)
  • I know that you will understand the obvious necessity that neither you or any member of your crew should be exposed to contact with a radioactive person.†   (source)
  • Even if they'd been correct about the heavy particles—the radioactive dust—which they weren't, we'd still have got the lightest particles carried by diffusion.†   (source)
  • It was very radioactive, too.†   (source)
  • All afternoon they carried out their radioactive trials, cruising around a barge with a mildly radioactive element on board anchored in the middle of the bay, while John Osborne ran around noting the readings on his various instruments, barking his long shins upon steel manholes as he clambered up and down the conning tower to the bridge, cracking his tall head painfully on bulkheads and control wheels as he moved quickly in the control room.†   (source)
  • By using radioactively tagged blood proteins, and then following his animals with scintillometer scans, he could determine where in the body the blood first clotted.†   (source)
  • These indicated that the highest intensity of radioactivity, near the torii, was 4.†   (source)
  • ON March 1, 1954, the Lucky Dragon No. 5 was showered with radioactive fallout from an American test at Bikini Atoll.†   (source)
  • Yet so radioactive were her nerves, so adventurous her trust in rather vaguely conceived sweetness and light, that she was more energetic than any of the hulking young women who, with calves bulging in heavy-ribbed woolen stockings beneath decorous blue serge bloomers, thuddingly galloped across the floor of the "gym" in practise for the Blodgett Ladies' Basket-Ball Team.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, antimatter is nonradioactive, its chemical signature is that of pure hydrogen, and the canister is plastic.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonradioactive means not and reverses the meaning of radioactive. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
  • Farther aft, saturated steam in the "outside" or nonradioactive loop of the heat exchange system emerged through clusters of control valves to strike the blades of the high-pressure turbine.†   (source)
  • And the next day, Rachel went off to the hospital to get shot full of drugs and radioactive particles and whatnot.†   (source)
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