Sample Sentences forradioactivity (auto-selected)
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The half-life of highly radioactive substances is shorter than that of substances that radiate weakly.radioactive = producing a stream of atomic particles through nuclear decay
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For a while, people worried that the radioactive cloud could spread to Shogahama — or beyond. (source)radioactive = coming from particles from nuclear decay
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The only radioactivity was in the inside loop.† (source)
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What if someone were to blow it up, maybe release the radioactivity, if there's any left in there?† (source)
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No radioactivity, no mess.† (source)
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He would later be told that it was the metal in his fillings resonating with the radioactivity of the bomb.† (source)
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Particle accelerators scar the land, and leave radioactive byproducts.† (source)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.
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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)
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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.
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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)
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It was the radioactiveness.† (source)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.
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The doctors said she'd died from leukemia, but Mom thought it was radioactive poisoning.† (source)
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These indicated that the highest intensity of radioactivity, near the torii, was 4.2 times the average natural 'leak' of ultra-short waves for the earth of that area.† (source)
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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)
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Put two of me in the same home and you have a positively radioactive situation.† (source)
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It's nothing to do with radioactivity, is it?† (source)
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