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radioactivity
in
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
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- It was the radioactiveness.†
p. 39.5radioactiveness = the state of emitting a stream of particles due to nuclear decay
- 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.†
p. 39.7radioactive = producing a stream of atomic particles through nuclear decay
- 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.†
p. 39.8radioactivity = the emission of a stream of atomic particles in nuclear decay
- I'd forgotten all about the radioactive dinosaurs!†
p. 41.2 *radioactive = producing a stream of atomic particles through nuclear decay
- I got to the battleground and saw the three radioactive graves, but when I moved the rock on the first one and dug a little bit down I didn't hit one dinosaur, not one!†
p. 41.4
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)