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  • No radioactivity, no mess.†  (source)
  • The doctors said she'd died from leukemia, but Mom thought it was radioactive poisoning.†  (source)
    radioactive = producing a stream of atomic particles through nuclear decay
  • Particle accelerators scar the land, and leave radioactive byproducts.†  (source)
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  • Put two of me in the same home and you have a positively radioactive situation.†  (source)
    radioactive = producing a stream of atomic particles through nuclear decay
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
  • And no radioactivity?†  (source)
    radioactivity = the emission of a stream of atomic particles in nuclear decay
  • Unfortunately, antimatter is nonradioactive, its chemical signature is that of pure hydrogen, and the canister is plastic.†  (source)
    nonradioactive = lacking emission of a stream of particles in nuclear decay
    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.
  • 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)
  • It was the radioactiveness.†  (source)
    radioactiveness = the state of emitting a stream of particles due to nuclear decay
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • I'm not radioactive anymore.†  (source)
    radioactive = producing a stream of atomic particles through nuclear decay
  • 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)
    radioactivity = the emission of a stream of atomic particles in nuclear decay
  • 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)
    nonradioactive = lacking emission of a stream of particles in nuclear decay
  • It's so radioactive that it will get red hot all by itself.†  (source)
    radioactive = producing a stream of atomic particles through nuclear decay
  • The only radioactivity was in the inside loop.†  (source)
    radioactivity = the emission of a stream of atomic particles in nuclear decay
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