NOUN
- electromagnetic radiation emitted during radioactive decay and having an extremely short wavelength
How To Use gamma radiation In A Sentence
- Third is immediate radiation travelling at the speed of light-neutron radiation at shorter distances, and gamma radiation further out.
- The thyroid can be affected by ionizing radiation through the skin by gamma radiation, including X rays; by fission products, such as cesium; or by ingestion or inhalation of iodine-131 (131I), an isotope present in nuclear fission products. Environmental effects on the thyroid
- The two new atoms then emit gamma radiation as they settle into their new states.
- Gamma radiation from medically useful radionuclides is substantially attenuated by 1 to 2 inches of lead.
- However the major portion of the initial gamma radiation is derived from the two latter sources.
- The sum total of alpha, beta and gamma radiation emitted per second after a week, a month, a year etc. is easy to calculate, if a bit laborious.
- According to the uncertainty principle, these ultrashort pulses would have a very wide spectrum of energies - with some photons in the gamma radiation range, having more than 1 MeV of energy.
- The primary methods of treatment are to sear the tumor with high doses of gamma radiation or to enucleate the eye surgically, leaving behind an empty socket. The Emperor of All Maladies
- Nuclear isomers are excited states that eventually decay to the ground state, mostly by gamma radiation.
- This box, designed to monitor gamma radiation, in itself contained enough strontium 90 to emit 500,000 becquerels of radioactivity.
