How to Use irradiation in a Sentence

irradiation

noun

• The biggest limitation is that the irradiation can be a health hazard, to both skin and eye, which is why the fixtures are placed up high, away from people.
  — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
• Before its 21-year-old gears gave out, the machine’s cobalt source had become so weak that irradiation sessions meant to last minutes took an hour.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 7 Oct. 2017
• Instead, Hanford researchers in the late 1960s went to a local prison and paid the inmates to allow the irradiation of their testicles, to see just how much radiation a man can receive before the tails fall from his sperm.
  — Michael Lewis, The Hive, 2 Aug. 2017
• Should mail irradiation be extended beyond these exclusive ZIP codes, to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus?
  — Nicola Twilley, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• In bone marrow transplants, the recipient must first have irradiation to remove his or her own hematopoietic stem cells.
  — Jeremy Rehm, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2018
• Hackmanite changes its color from white to purple under UV irradiation and eventually reverts back to white if no UV is present.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• Three weeks of irradiation produces a reddish diamond while a black diamond requires about two months.
  — Joan Meiners, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2021
• Options for sterilizing cannabis include irradiation or ozone gas, as used in the food industry.
  — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 1 Jan. 2022
• Many in the food-safety camp are already keen on more-energetic kill steps, such as irradiation, chemical treatment with ozone or chlorine compounds, or the use of high-barometric-pressure systems.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 28 July 2017
• That calculated out to an unpleasant irradiation rate of 5.75 micros an hour.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 10 Apr. 2018
• The room had six air changes per hour and was fitted with efficient filters, ultraviolet irradiation and other safety measures to inactivate the virus before the air was reintroduced into the room.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli New York Times, Star Tribune, 12 Aug. 2020
• Private companies then rent irradiation time at the reactors, send the resulting medley of isotopes to processing plants, book the final Mo-99 on commercial flights back to the US, and distribute it to hospitals and pharmacies.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2018
• Tiny, segmented creatures called tardigrades have become famous for using this strategy to survive freezing, irradiation, and even the vacuum of space.
  — Kate S. Petersen, Discover Magazine, 13 Aug. 2020
• The team has been experimenting with different spacecraft materials to see how each reacts to laser pulse emissions called irradiation.
  — Caroline Delbert and Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2021
• Following irradiation, the total count of prokaryotic and metabolically active bacterial cells remained the same, though the types of bacteria most dominant in the samples had changed.
  — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2017
• The team also obtained data on temperatures, solar irradiation, and wind speed over two decades from two different Earth-observing satellite systems.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2023
• Broadly defined, in the context of cannabis and food production, irradiation is the use of ionizing radiation to eliminate contaminants like bacteria and mold.
  — Chris Roberts, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
• Less than two months after the disaster, Soviet officials launched a research institution designed to study the effects of irradiation on agriculture and ecology.
  — Jane Braxton Little, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2020
• The agency said Leukine was found to increase survival when administered up to 48 hours after total body irradiation at doses expected to be potentially life threatening within the first few weeks after exposure.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
• First, physicians must destroy the original immune system with chemotherapy and sometimes irradiation.
  — NBC News, 16 Feb. 2022
• At issue is a study that was begun in 1998 to determine whether a single treatment of stereotactic radiosurgery, also known as targeted irradiation, would prolong life for outpatients with metastasizing brain tumors.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 16 Oct. 2021
• The causal relation between skin cancer and irradiation with ultraviolet-emitting tanning devices is well documented, but the use of UVA light in nail dryers has received little attention and could pose a significant public health risk.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• High irradiation countries will use solar to fuel electrolysis and export the hydrogen or its derivatives.
  — Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• The diamondback moths are not irradiated, though, because the irradiation strategy didn’t work.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2017
• University lab technicians treated the fish skin with various sterilizing agents, and sent it to São Paulo for irradiation to kill viruses before packaging and refrigeration.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 26 May 2017
• The irradiation sterilizes female mosquitoes, so that any that are inadvertently released will be unable to reproduce and spread Wolbachia to future generations.
  — Jon Emont, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2020
• Nichols undergoes intravenous ozone therapy and ultraviolet blood irradiation, and also takes naltrexone, a drug used to treat opioid use disorder.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 11 Mar. 2023
• Consumers have been reluctant to embrace irradiation, which exposes food products to ionizing radiation, and organic standards don’t allow its use.
  — Virginia Gewin, Washington Post, 22 July 2019
• The filter included a carbon filter and an ultraviolet irradiation unit, both of which decrease chlorine concentrations.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• Germicidal irradiation via ultraviolet bulbs, as is commonly found in hospital HVAC systems, is a bonus.
  — Zara Stone, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024