All 30 Uses
radiation
in
Alas, Babylon
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- You're absorbing radiation from the jewelry Porky traded for the whiskey.
Chpt 8 *radiation = particles emitted by nuclear decay
- And only the Japanese have personal understanding of atomic heat and radiation.†
Chpt Pref.
- With fallout and radiation, it'll be luck—the size of configuration of the weapons, altitude of the fireball, direction of the wind.†
Chpt 1
- Says it's just as bad to frighten people to death as kill them with radiation, and I must say that I agree with him.†
Chpt 4
- Then there's radiation.†
Chpt 5
- Already millions must be dead and other millions maimed, or doomed by radiation, for if the enemy was hitting Florida, they would hardly skip SAC bases and missile sites in more densely populated areas.†
Chpt 5
- And all this, mind you, with only three casualties caused directly by the war—three cases of radiation poisoning.†
Chpt 6
- Radiation?†
Chpt 6
- Are we getting any radiation, do you think?†
Chpt 6
- The danger of radiation was still there, and might increase.†
Chpt 6
- Now the danger obviously was infinitely greater, but since there were other and more immediate dangers—dangers that you could see, feel, and hear—radiation had become secondary.†
Chpt 6
- Each hour the county Conelrad station repeated warnings—boil all drinking water, do not drink fresh milk, do not use the telephone, and, in the Sunday morning hours after the destruction of Orlando, warnings to take shelter and guard against fallout and radiation.†
Chpt 7
- While radiation was a danger, it could not be felt or seen, and therefore other dangers, and even annoyances, seemed more imperative.†
Chpt 7
- He and Kitty were certain it was radiation poisoning.†
Chpt 7
- I've got three serious cases of radiation poisoning.†
Chpt 8
- Couldn't he have picked up radiation then?†
Chpt 8
- But the radiation is killing him faster than the liquor.†
Chpt 8
- Radiation's not a germ or a virus.†
Chpt 8
- I'll swear he's had a fresh dose of radiation since I saw him last.†
Chpt 8
- I've been to the library, reading up on it, and now I wonder whether it couldn't be radiation.†
Chpt 8
- You haven't absorbed nearly as much radiation as your brother," Dan said.†
Chpt 8
- I don't know exactly what's going to happen because radiation sickness is so tricky.†
Chpt 8
- Yes, she should be all right so far as radiation goes.†
Chpt 8
- RADIATION!†
Chpt 8
- There are a lot of people around here who still don't know what radiation means.†
Chpt 8
- So under "RADIATION," Dan printed "POISON."†
Chpt 8
- I don't think she'll die of radiation sickness.†
Chpt 8
- Randy remembered what Jim had said about half his broods going foul since The Day and how Jim suspected radiation was responsible.†
Chpt 9
- Could radiation have wiped them out, or anything?†
Chpt 12
- I think they might be taking radiation samples.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(radiation as in: nuclear radiation) particles emitted by unstable atomic nucleiGenerally, radiation is discussed in terms of harmful levels of radiation that cause sickness. However, there is a normal level of radiation that is not harmful and sometimes radiation is carefully used for beneficial purposes such as medical treatments that use it to kill cancer cells.
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(2)
(radiation as in: electromagnetic radiation) energy sent out as invisible rays such as from heat, light, or radio waves
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)