How to Use gamma radiation in a Sentence
gamma radiation
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One sample was sent to a lab to test for gamma radiation and to see if there were any microorganisms present.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021
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Some black holes could be wormholes, and the difference is in the gamma radiation.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2021
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The team observed a quick flash of gamma radiation, the result of the stars crashing and sending space matter blasting through the galaxy to settle among the stars.
—Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2020
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But on its way out, the cosmic ray collides with gas in the solar atmosphere and fizzles in a flurry of gamma radiation.
—Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
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In July 1967, two of those satellites picked up a flash of gamma radiation that was clearly not the signature of a nuclear weapons test.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2022
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In the comics, Walters receives her dose of gamma radiation via a blood transfusion from her cousin, thus allowing her to Hulk out by night and stalk the courtroom by day.
—Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 19 May 2022
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The gamma radiation theory This one comes from Reddit, where one user posited that a seemingly throwaway line in Avengers: Endgame might set up the rise of the mutants.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 7 June 2019
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In a new paper, Russian scientists posit that the right blast of gamma radiation could reveal wormholes in black hole disguise.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2021
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In addition, the Navy used parts of both sites as radioactive waste dumps, burying thousands of small objects that emit low-level gamma radiation.
—Jason Fagone, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Aug. 2020
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Could that gamma radiation have created a group of mutants?
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 7 June 2019
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The cells shut down in response to DNA-damaging agents like gamma radiation, or when a cancer-inducing gene was inserted.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2018
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Studies of ice cores from glaciers and polar caps on Earth have found a telltale spike in gamma radiation that seemed to arrive about three million years ago, seemingly from a star that exploded some 300 light-years away.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
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But the exposure to gamma radiation took its toll on Hulk’s nearly indestructible body.
—Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Aug. 2022
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This is the first time microbes have been shown to survive such high levels of gamma radiation, possibly owing to the biodiversity of the natural sample.
—Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2017
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For Rongelap, further research is needed to understand the large amount of background gamma radiation on one of the northern islands, called Naen, as well as the presence of plutonium isotopes in the soil.
—Hart Rapaport, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2022
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Up until now, astronomers have had to rely on the electromagnetic spectrum—from radio waves, through visible light, to gamma radiation—to gaze at the universe.
—The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
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Hulk later theorizes that the stones expel gamma radiation, the same radiation that gave Bruce Banner his Hulk powers.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 7 June 2019
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Exposure to Cs-137 can also increase one’s risk of cancer, as a result of high-energy gamma radiation.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
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Unlike lower energy radiation that is put out by cell phones and microwaves, gamma radiation is at the very high end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
—Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2013
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Reiners is talking about stuff like gamma radiation that could be potentially fatal for microbes.
—William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2016
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Ukraine’s nuclear agency warned that readings of gamma radiation in the exclusion zone, exceeded control levels on Friday, due to the large number of heavy military machines in the area disturbing the topsoil.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2022
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After the initial discovery, astronomers debated where these bursts of gamma radiation were coming from—a critical clue for what’s powering them.
—Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 18 July 2021
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After the initial discovery, astronomers debated where these bursts of gamma radiation were coming from — a critical clue for what’s powering them.
—Quanta Magazine, 5 July 2021
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Painted in patriotic Swedish blue and yellow, it is festooned with large ventilation pipes that can keep out gamma radiation and other potential hazards.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2018
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Scientists made the discovery following attempts to sterilize cans of meat using high doses of gamma radiation.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Mar. 2022
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Andrusevych, the Ukrainian lawyer, notes the conflict has already raised acute concerns, like at Chernobyl, where the status of monitoring and maintenance is uncertain after sensors recorded high gamma radiation levels there last week.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 3 Mar. 2022
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Without the magnetic protection, particles from space called cosmic rays relentlessly bombard the moon’s surface and produce gamma radiation, some of which escapes.
—Kelso Harper, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2019
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Bombs typically only emit 0.1 percent to 0.5 percent of their energy as gamma radiation, though exotic designs may increase this output.
—David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2017
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Further research largely waited until the 1970s, when better scientific instruments, from receivers to gamma radiation-detecting space telescopes, let astronomers and physicists confirm the earlier calculations and observations.
—Joe Lindsey, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2019
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The investigation also utilized gamma radiation scanning devices.
—Jon Brown, Fox News, 26 May 2022
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