What is "gammas"

Usage examples of "gammas".

Immediately behind the gammas were X-rays, also composed of photons but less energetic.

But the gammas and X-rays were heading in all possible directions at the speed of light, and their next effect was one no one had anticipated.

If that heavy sphere were giving off hard gammas, he was already dead, another part of his brain had already decided.

The majority of the gammas streaked through a gas cloud that only a few microseconds earlier had been the chemical explosive blocks, heating it far beyond the temperatures chemicals alone could achieve.

The gammas must have been on Julia’s clothing when she came home from the lab.

Anyway, that night she accidentally let the gammas loose in the nursery.

That was intentional, to check for residual gammas in case they’d missed any.