An inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction

Usage examples of carrier.

The Lupus had followed down their Triumph-class aerodyne, the Wulfstag, waiting until the massive troop carrier ground to a halt using Highlake Basin as a modified landing field.

His report, and seeing the aerodyne carrier, reminded him of more unfinished business.

On a terse command from their carrier, they went to afterburner and rocketed southwest toward the Backfires.

He never brought the carrier within range, except at night, when he knew the Argentinian Air Force did not fly.

The Russians, unable to get their own primitive aircraft carriers under way due to engineering problems and lack of maintenance, had suggested this somewhat lopsided mission that we were on now--the Jefferson would visit the port of Arkhangelsk, and in exchange, the Russians would host a professional conference aimed at both Russian and American fighter pilots.

The college researchers had also learned that each fusion left scar tissue on the ayin complex deep in her brain, where her epsilon carrier arose.

Better you give her to the lowest Egyptian offal carrier than to that sheep-rutting Bactrian nephew of yours.

In particular, the Saudis now forbid us to fly strike missions from their air bases, insisting that they be launched instead from Kuwait, Bahrain, or carriers in the Gulf.

American aircraft carrier battle group was entering the Gulf of Thailand, possibly in support of the Bangkok regime.

Jap bastards tried to crash their planes into carriers and battlewagons all at once?

Also by Keith Douglass THE CARRIER SERIES: CARRIER Viper Strike Armageddon Mode Flame-Out Maelstrom Countdown Afterburn Alpha Strike Arctic Fire Arsenal THE SEAL TEAM SEVEN SERIES: SEAL Team Seven Specter Nucflash Direct Action Firestorm Battleground To my good friend, writing critic, and advisor in all things Navy, Cyndy Mobley.

The odds were now ten or eleven carriers to three, ten combat-ready battleships to none, and nobody knew where those heavy enemy forces were.

The intelligence is that a mess of big transports have already left the Jap home islands, escorted by battleships, carriers, cruisers, and Christ knows what else, for an invasion of Luzon in force.

The Empire lay open now to a Japanese navy -that included ten battleships and six major aircraft carriers, with only a much-weakened American navy at its back to worry about.

At least eight carriers, perhaps ten battleships, only God could know how many cruisers, destroyers, submarines!