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During her years of work, Curie coined the term radioactivity, and named Polonium. From Wordnik.com. [Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating women in technology and science - EC#1] Reference
Something other than radioactivity is required to release nuclear energy within a star. From Wordnik.com. [Fusion] Reference
Even the historiography of women in radioactivity research has followed the same trend. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
As radioactivity is in addition a property which is essentially atomic, the production or the destruction of. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture] Reference
After his period at Glasgow he did no further work in radioactivity and allowed the later developments to pass him by. From Wordnik.com. [Frederick Soddy - Biography] Reference
Meyer and Exner tried to plan for their future research in radioactivity, the radium hazards were unpredictable at the time. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
She had already gained experience not only in radioactivity but also in industrial chemistry and textile technology as well. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
For each discipline, radium carried a different identity as it did for the various institutes involved in radioactivity research. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
I proposed the word radioactivity which has since become generally adopted; the radioactive elements have been called radio elements. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Curie] Reference
Italy reported a drop in radioactivity in the air, attributed to the suspension of nuclear blasts in the atmosphere by the superpowers. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - The White Sox last played a Series in a different world] Reference
The literature stocked specialized exclusively in radioactivity. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
It was also in this work that they used the term radioactivity for the first time. From Wordnik.com. [Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium] Reference
7 The cultures engaged in radioactivity research, however, were not only scientific. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
2In the early 1920s, the most challenging set of problems in radioactivity research was related to artificial disintegration. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
The more supportive these figures were, the easier it was for women to be accepted into physics laboratories specializing in radioactivity. From Wordnik.com. [Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna] Reference
This phenomenon is known as "radioactivity," and bodies which exhibit it are said to be "radioactive.". From Wordnik.com. [Alchemy: Ancient and Modern] Reference
Here, therefore, we have a true radioactivity which is made evident by the emission of positive electrons. From Wordnik.com. [Artificial Production Of Radioactive Elements: Nobel Lecture] Reference
Seen thus, radioactivity becomes a symptom of the earth's old age. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The place was still hot, but it was thermal heat, not radioactivity. From Wordnik.com. [The Measure of a Man] Reference
By then the radioactivity from the blasts would have died down considerably. From Wordnik.com. [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference
You cut off my avenue of escape — I wanted the interplay with radioactivity. From Wordnik.com. [Two Times a Lady] Reference
It's well within the dead zone, where radioactivity and contamination are the highest. From Wordnik.com. [NUCLEAR FAMILIES] Reference
Sensors sniffing for pathogens or radioactivity, they guessed, though they couldn't be sure. From Wordnik.com. [Full Speed Ahead] Reference
Back on the asteroid, a pit that glowed with radioactivity marked the site of the first blast. From Wordnik.com. [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference
That is, the radioactive particles would lodge in the building and ground and emit radioactivity. From Wordnik.com. [What Makes A Dirty Bomb?] Reference
"In problematic regions, every single hunted boar will be tested for radioactivity before being sold.". From Wordnik.com. [Radioactive Boars On The Rise In Germany] Reference
"The disappointment (when radioactivity is found in meat) is usually rather limited," said vet Baumer. From Wordnik.com. [Radioactive Boars On The Rise In Germany] Reference
Ground water is contaminated with radioactivity and chemicals, and 177 unlabeled tanks leak radioactive glop. From Wordnik.com. [This Land Is Really Hot] Reference
The American Medical Association endorses irradiation, and most scientists say it leave s no radioactivity behind. From Wordnik.com. [Hamburgers: To Zap Or Not To Zap?] Reference
I can accept that much less was known and understood about radioactivity in the early days of the atomic age than now. From Wordnik.com. [The Radiation Experiments] Reference
Trinity Site was later encircled with more than a mile of chain link fencing and posted with signs warning of radioactivity. From Wordnik.com. [Trinity site] Reference
The same is true of the phenomena bound up with radioactivity, which were discovered in direct consequence of Crookes's work. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
At about the same time, the Hanford Nuclear Facility in Richland, Wash., was regularly showering its neighbors with radioactivity. From Wordnik.com. [America's Nuclear Secrets] Reference
Experts so far have no evidence that the animals suffer from the relatively low levels of radioactivity accumulating in their bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Radioactive Boars On The Rise In Germany] Reference
Glucose is brain food; active regions of the brain use more glucose than quiescent areas and so emit radioactivity, which PET detects. From Wordnik.com. [Gray Matters] Reference
Yet Miracastle offers no evidence for the existence of a prior technology -- no ruins, no residual radioactivity from atomic operations. From Wordnik.com. [General Max Shorter] Reference
Other instruments were set up for recording radioactivity, temperature, air pressure, and similar data needed by the project scientists. From Wordnik.com. [Trinity site] Reference
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