All 5 Uses
radioactivity
in
The Hunt for Red October
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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.†
Chpt 7.nonradioactive = lacking emission of a stream of particles in nuclear decaystandard 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.
- The only radioactivity was in the inside loop.†
Chpt 7. *radioactivity = the emission of a stream of atomic particles in nuclear decay
- The reactor coolant, which carried short-lived but dangerous radioactivity, never flashed to steam.†
Chpt 7.
- The water was dangerously radioactive as a result of the fission reaction taking place within the uranium fuel rods.†
Chpt 8.radioactive = producing a stream of atomic particles through nuclear decay
- In a minute there was a meter-wide puddle of radioactive slag, enough to form its own critical mass.†
Chpt 8.
Definitions:
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(1)
(radioactivity) the emission of a stream of atomic particles in nuclear decay
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)