radiohalo

noun

ra·​dio·​halo

¦rādē(ˌ)ō+

: a halo usually of microscopic dimensions in a mineral or a rock produced by radioactive emanations from an included small grain of some other mineral

Word History

Etymology

radio- + halo

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