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radiation as in:  nuclear radiation

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  • The radiation exposure from a standard chest X-ray, is comparable to that experienced in a transatlantic commercial jet flight.
    radiation = particles emitted by unstable atomic nuclei
  • Malcolm said, "I should like some clarification about this. Because it seems to me that irradiation is fraught with uncertainty. The radiation dose may be wrong, or aimed at the wrong anatomical area of the animal—"
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  • "Those mistakes can happen when you get exposed to chemicals or radiation," Christoph said.   (source)
    radiation = particles emitted by nuclear decay
  • You're absorbing radiation from the jewelry Porky traded for the whiskey.   (source)
  • ...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.   (source)
  • And I'd recommend palliative radiation.†   (source)
  • Then radiation.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, during one of the sudden fluctuations in solar radiation, the surface of the sun was calm.†   (source)
  • IT WAS, THEY would determine, a tumor on the brain, and her decline would be like many others, treatments that made the disease seem mild, hair falling out in patches, mornings spent with noisy radiation machines and evenings spent vomiting in a hospital toilet.†   (source)
  • As you can imagine, a material that can literally fry an egg with radiation is kind of dangerous.†   (source)
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  • Radiation and chemotherapy into August had bought Rose another harvest.†   (source)
  • "I don't have a thing about radiation," I said.†   (source)
  • Antimatter creates no pollution or radiation, and a droplet could power New York City for a full day.†   (source)
  • Radiation and fire consumed the city once and never let it go.†   (source)
  • I can almost see it, red radiation, wavering upwards like the shimmer above highway tarmac at noon.†   (source)
  • Drugs, radiation, electroshock, surgery.†   (source)
  • We'd better get that helmet off her ASAP, or the radiation will fry her brain.†   (source)
  • As we walked, the air of abandonment grew more and more disturbing, as if we were roaming some planet depopulated by radiation or disease.†   (source)
  • Nuclear missiles would release radiation into the atmosphere, with incalculable environmental results.†   (source)
  • Even in my godly form, I felt the power of Chaos washing over me like lethal radiation, cooking me from the inside out, eating into my soul—and I believed what Horus had said.†   (source)
  • Like radiation sickness?†   (source)
  • Even small amounts of radiation can make people very sick, especially children.†   (source)
  • Still, I knew I was in for a brutal time, especially since the surgery needed to be followed by an extremely toxic regimen of chemotherapy and radiation.†   (source)
  • Inside the imaging room, Sonja stood with the tech behind the radiation shield while I stood beside a listless Colton as the moving table slid him into a big, scary tube.†   (source)
  • Global warming was the most commonly cited theory: the sun's radiation interfering with the birds natural navigation system.†   (source)
  • When the milk in Oregon is tainted by the radiation eruption of a Soviet nuclear reactor, we are forced to see our interdependence.†   (source)
  • That means there was nothing to stop the radiation from the cosmos.†   (source)
  • The Red October Every two days the starpom collected the radiation badges.†   (source)
  • Hiro startles and actually jumps into the air as Vitaly Chernobyl and the Meltdowns launch into their opening number, "Radiation Burn."†   (source)
  • Maybe it's the extra radiation soaking through my brain.†   (source)
  • Radiation lingers.†   (source)
  • My neck was hot as radiation and my brain racing for excuses.†   (source)
  • More likely it was a reaction to the fierce ultraviolet radiation that had burned my retinas and baked my brain.†   (source)
  • During the radiation she'd cut it very short, saying she didn't intend to waste another instant of her life being fashionable.†   (source)
  • I Waves and Radiation .†   (source)
  • Widespread introduction of the process has thus far been impeded, however, by a reluctance among consumers to eat things that have been exposed to radiation.†   (source)
  • Marburg virus (the gentle sister) affects humans somewhat like nuclear radiation, damaging virtually all of the tissues in their bodies.†   (source)
  • The field of chemistry plays a crucial role in developing medicines, radiation treatments for cancer patients, petroleum uses, the ozone—" Alex raises his hand.†   (source)
  • I remembered, too, his hours exposed to radiation from the Old Koot, the ancient X-ray machine which, despite everyone's protests, he'd continued to use until Missing finally got a new machine.†   (source)
  • We'll just travel around the globe like the navy in Nevil Shute's On the Beach, searching for survivors and waiting for the radiation cloud to cook us.†   (source)
  • It obviously wasn't functioning from the old GPS satellites—they'd all been destroyed in the radiation holocaust of the sun flares.†   (source)
  • His father is in California, driving her five days a week to radiation therapy and once a week to chemo.†   (source)
  • He was seeking the exact source of the radiations.†   (source)
  • For one thing, the problem of determining how much is queen and how much queenly radiation.†   (source)
  • They didn't have a clear idea what radiation might do, so they tracked where the wind blew it, and what happened to those who came in contact with the fallout.†   (source)
  • He had two rounds of chemo and radiation, lost his hair and a lot of weight, so weak and sick he couldn't get out of bed.†   (source)
  • We'll be living in damp caves, eating at the bottom of the food chain because everything with any flavor will be full of mercury or radiation or something!†   (source)
  • Ten years later she died as a result of radiation from the bomb.†   (source)
  • Mortenson, already well-versed in medicine, persuaded Dempsey's doctors to discontinue radiation, knowing his father's condition was terminal and determined that he should have a chance to enjoy what little time he had.†   (source)
  • She wished she had something more reassuring to say, but there was no way to tell how much radiation was still in the atmosphere.†   (source)
  • It came upon me slowly, like that strange disease that affects those black men whom you see turning slowly from black to albino, their pigment disappearing as under the radiation of some cruel, invisible ray.†   (source)
  • If you caught damage from radiation—well, no geneticist but know something about radiation.†   (source)
  • It was one of Colorado's new towns, the towns that had grown like a radiation from the Wyatt oil fields.†   (source)
  • He knew that the layer of suffocating flour could only block the gemstone's powerful radiations for a short time.†   (source)
  • Take ozone: Up in the atmosphere, a layer of ozone protects us from the harmful ultraviolet radiation of our life-giving sun.†   (source)
  • In the wake of the gunshot's echo, the silence settling down through the house seemed as deadly as the invisible and weightless rain of atomic radiation in the sepulchral stillness following nuclear thunder.†   (source)
  • There was a big information desk behind which several women, probably nurses, were milling; signs pointed the way to the ICU, Radiation, Surgical Oncology, Pediatrics, and so on.†   (source)
  • A radiation cloud could cover multiple states within a few days.†   (source)
  • It turns into a fireball that is only different from a nuclear weapon in that it doesn't release radiation.†   (source)
  • Alan didn't want radiation, didn't want to go bald.†   (source)
  • And the chemo and the radiation and the bone marrow transplants didn't do anything but make him sicker faster and with much more ferocity than before.†   (source)
  • We wouldn't go outside the hull unless the radiation level's near to normal.†   (source)
  • Somehow, out in space, the light of the sun had been polarized by two crossed fields so that no radiation could pass.†   (source)
  • The deep lines in her face went into a fierce and different radiation.†   (source)
  • On March 14, as an eyewitness described it, the Convention hall was "crowded ....electrified with fiery radiations, of men tingling with passion, and glowing and burning with the anticipation of revengeful battle.†   (source)
  • The radiation charged Chooka's nervous system with a low induction current.†   (source)
  • Ionizing radiation has enough energy to ionize atoms or molecules.
    radiation = particles emitted by unstable atomic nuclei
  • Radiation has a habit of hanging around when certain scientists have assured us it has dissipated.†   (source)
  • Oh, how my father, said how they cooked her alive with radiation treatments.†   (source)
  • The dropping white count and some of these other indicators are consistent with radiation exposure.†   (source)
  • With no magnetic field, Mars has no defense against harsh solar radiation.†   (source)
  • The other Colonies are worse, though, the toxic dumps and the radiation spills.†   (source)
  • The radiation from a neutron bomb cannot kill right away.†   (source)
  • "If you have a thing about radiation, you don't have to use it," she said.†   (source)
  • Secondly, the atmosphere protected life from the harmful cosmic radiation.†   (source)
  • As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.†   (source)
  • First check the radiation instruments themselves.†   (source)
  • Her doctors stopped the radiation treatment and seemed as defeated by the cancer as she was.†   (source)
  • As energy crossed each boundary, the radiation frequency stepped down a grade sharply.†   (source)
  • Automatic radiation detectors were in every corner of the room, each surrounded by a red circle.†   (source)
  • The radiation can't be increased or decreased.†   (source)
  • But at any rate, this patient now has ...acute Gonorrhea superimposed on radiation reaction.†   (source)
  • Food is heated by the energy generated from absorbing microwave radiation.†   (source)
  • Instead, I spent the day taking drugs and playing with radiation.†   (source)
  • The radiation fills the entire universe and can be observed in the centimeter wavelength range.†   (source)
  • They also knew radiation levels were higher beyond the ozone layer.†   (source)
  • Only a fool would feel entirely safe looking for a radiation leak.†   (source)
  • He noted that they were reading from the maintenance manual for a radiation detector.†   (source)
  • Especially when you know the root cause of the heat is radiation.†   (source)
  • At the heart of each halo was a radiation source.†   (source)
  • The radiation treatments were just to make sure there were no cancer cells left anywhere inside her.†   (source)
  • The data included the frequency ranges of the radiation as well as other parameters.†   (source)
  • They cut HeLa cells apart and exposed them to endless toxins, radiation, and infections.†   (source)
  • Radiation alarms had sounded throughout the hull.†   (source)
  • Their officers had just checked the "hot" compartments with radiation instruments.†   (source)
  • Water molecule radiation frequency at 22,000 MHz†   (source)
  • At that point, the radiation seemed like nothing more than an inconvenience.†   (source)
  • You see, the radiation film badges showed contamination, but the engine room instruments did not.†   (source)
  • But the diffraction of centimeter-wave radiation overwhelmed all other shapes and details.†   (source)
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radiation as in:  electromagnetic radiation

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  • The air is different, the solar radiation is different, the land is different, the insects are different, the sounds are different, the vegetation is different.   (source)
  • If you remember your black-body radiation, black is actually best in heat.   (source)
    radiation = thermal energy sent out as invisible rays
  • There will be more ultraviolet radiation reaching the surface.   (source)
    radiation = energy sent out as invisible rays
  • Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation.   (source)
  • Ultraviolet radiation is good for life.   (source)
  • Efficient radiation.   (source)
    radiation = thermal energy sent out as invisible rays
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  • He had treated Seth for almost a year, and, referring to his notes, went on and on about the surgery, then the chemotherapy and radiation and medications.†   (source)
  • He'd battled lung cancer for a year, with several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, all unsuccessful, and the tumors had finally metastasized to his ribs and spine.†   (source)
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