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radioactive

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Radioactive (also known as Radioactive: Amazing and Mystifying Chemical Tricks ) is the debut studio album by American rapper Yelawolf ; it was released on November 21, 2011, by Shady Records and Interscope Records .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
radioactive \ra`di*o*ac"tive\ (r[=a]`d[i^]*[-o]*[a^]k"t[i^]v), a. [Radio- + active.] (Physics) Capable of luminescence under the action of cathode rays, X rays, or any of the allied forms of radiation. [obsolete] (Physics) of, exhibiting, or caused by radioactivity ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a radioactive substance (= containing a form of energy that can harm people ) ▪ People who work with radioactive substances are subject to strict regulations. radioactive dating radioactive fallout ▪ protection ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Exhibiting radioactivity.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1898, from French radio-actif , coined by Pierre and Marie Curie from radio- , comb. form of Latin radius (see radiation ) + actif "active" (see active ).

Usage examples of radioactive.

The assay involves using a radioactive drug which binds quantitatively to the acetylcholine receptor, the amount of radioactivity bound being proportional to the amount of receptor present.

Khasr ship revealed that its whole substance was a highly unstable allotrope, which, however, was not radioactive.

Montpelier, then fissioned in a purposely ugly way in such a way as to create like hellacious amounts of highly poisonous radioactive wastes, which are mixed with heavy water and specially heated-zirconium-piped through special heavily guarded heated zirconium pipes back down to Montpelier as raw materiel for the massive poisons needed for toxic lithiumization and waste-intenseness and annular fusion.

Youman explained that the standard treatment protocol for tes-ticular cancer was called BEP, a cocktail of three different drugs, bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin, and they were so toxic that the nurses wore radioactive protection when handling them.

Consulting the impressive list on a kind of menu pinned to his door, Isaac unhesitatingly chose otorhinolaryngological disease, something which no one could prove he did not have, and was borne off in a sedan chair by two gleeful male nurses for a course of hydrotherapy and massive immersion in radioactive mud.

There is a prevalent misconception that rocks and the fossils they encase are usually dated by such means as carbon-14 or radioactive elements found in rocks.

The blast transformed Jadrack, and the cathedral of the holy prophet Moop , and the town in which it stood, to a fine radioactive dust.

Erosion and overgrazing had produced that desert, not war, though there were mildly radioactive patches all across it.

Linder develops electric current directly from the atomic rays by placing collector electrodes in an evacuated chamber containing the polonium or radioactive phosphorus, etc.

Electricity produced by radioactive isotopes, strontium go, polonium zro, by thermoelectric energy conversion.

She had heard all this, apart from the story of Kolb, at the time of the Carrig affair, when a group of Cyclopean entrepreneurs learned from a failed Corps probationer the location of ZRP Fourteen and its deposits of high-yield radioactives.

And number ninety-nine is naturally radioactive, breaking down to protoactinium by a double emission of alpha particles.

The radioactive stone has somehow enabled your brainperhaps by stimulation of the psychophysical faculty that is rudimentary in all of ushas enabled you to concentrate and convert that diffuse energy into material atoms.

As the camera panned the devastation, in the distance, where the smoke and radioactive cloud had not yet entirely shrouded the earth, the moon rose above the horizon, glowing blood red through the desecrated sky.

If what provoked my own protest was the issue of reverse discrimination, what inflamed the First Things symposiasts was the much more radioactive question of abortion.