Sample sentences for RADIATION

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Definition

particles emitted by nuclear decay (i.e., particles smaller than an atom that are sent out due to radioactivity)

More rarely, radiation can refer to energy such as heat, light and radio waves.

Ionizing radiation has enough energy to ionize atoms or molecules.

radiation = particles emitted by nuclear decay (i.e., particles smaller than an atom that are sent out due to radioactivity)

"Those mistakes can happen when you get exposed to chemicals or radiation," Christoph said.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

radiation = particles emitted by nuclear decay (i.e., particles smaller than an atom that are sent out due to radioactivity)

You're absorbing radiation from the jewelry Porky traded for the whiskey.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon

radiation = particles emitted by nuclear decay (i.e., particles smaller than an atom that are sent out due to radioactivity)

You see, it's short on mutations; it does not enjoy Earth's high level of natural radiation.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers

radiation = particles emitted by nuclear decay (which can cause illness and in very rare cases, desired mutations)

They sent manned aircraft through radiation clouds.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld

radiation = particles emitted by nuclear decay that can make people sick

...statisticians calculated that about twenty-five per cent had died of direct burns from the bomb, about fifty per cent from other injuries, and about twenty per cent as a result of radiation effects.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima

radiation = particles emitted by nuclear decay (i.e., particles smaller than an atom that are sent out due to radioactivity)

My neck was hot as radiation and my brain racing for excuses.
Victor Martinez -- Parrot in the Oven
I'm pretty practical about foundations and radiation and stuff like that, but I guess I don't know a whole lot about architecture."
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
Even small amounts of radiation can make people very sick, especially children.
Lauren Tarshis -- I Survived: The Japanese Tsunami, 2011
We'd better get that helmet off her ASAP, or the radiation will fry her brain.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
That means there was nothing to stop the radiation from the cosmos.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
He told her that radiation was not an option, because the disease was present in so many of his organs.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song
Radiation and fire consumed the city once and never let it go.
Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen
A radiation cloud could cover multiple states within a few days.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
I can almost see it, red radiation, wavering upwards like the shimmer above highway tarmac at noon.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
For one thing, the problem of determining how much is queen and how much queenly radiation.
John Gardner -- Grendel
And so the youngest of our family, with the blond hair and the hazel eyes, had the chemotherapy and the radiation.
Mitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie
The entire sky, although lit up by stellar radiation, seemed pitch–black in comparison with the whiteness of these waters.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The radiation charged Chooka's nervous system with a low induction current.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
His eyes glowed radiation green.
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian

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