How to Use radioactivity in a Sentence

radioactivity

noun

• Hublin’s team spent a year measuring the radioactivity of the Jebel Irhoud site.
  — National Geographic, 7 June 2017
• There, the remains were buried so that the radioactivity in them cannot escape and harm others.
  — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• The disks were returned so they could be trimmed in size to reduce their radioactivity.
  — Patrick Malone and Peter Cary, idahostatesman, 10 Aug. 2017
• The first piece of land transferred to the city, a 75-acre hilltop region known as Parcel A, was not tested for radioactivity.
  — Jason Fagone, SFChronicle.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Kaltofen, through the course of his study, found three of the highest levels of thorium radioactivity in the dust of three Hanford workers’ homes.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 14 June 2018
• The lab reported that sampling of the area during the fire showed no release of radioactivity.
  — NBC News, 23 Dec. 2020
• Its radioactivity shot into the stratosphere and circled the globe for years.
  — New York Times, 30 Oct. 2021
• Maybe the people at the labs could figure out how to keep the radioactivity from seeping into the Columbia River and leave it at that.
  — Michael Lewis, The Hive, 2 Aug. 2017
• Many mines have high levels of radioactivity, and a high risk of collapse, leading to injury or death.
  — Marx Itabelo Lwabanya, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• Large amounts of radioactivity were released into the air, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced from their homes.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2019
• The water would be filtered to reduce radioactivity, and the process would begin in 2022 at the earliest.
  — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2021
• In the glass form, the waste is stable and its radioactivity will safely dissipate over hundreds to thousands of years.
  — Nicholas K. Geranios, The Seattle Times, 16 Mar. 2018
• There’s a plaque marking the site and the U.S. Department of Energy still keeps tabs on low-level radioactivity under the ground.
  — Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022
• Members of the public can suggest sites that should be tested, collect data on radioactivity, and raise funds to cover the cost of the research.
  — Eva Lewandowski, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2016
• When the first radioactive consumer products were launched, in the early 1900s, radioactivity was a brand new field of science.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 3 Mar. 2020
• The wastewater will then be diluted to 1,500 becquerels of tritium – a unit of radioactivity – per liter of clean water.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 4 July 2023
• Leona writes in her book, The Uranium People, about some of her brushes with radioactivity.
  — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 20 July 2023
• The sphere sent out a burst of radioactivity in a bright blue flash of light, and Slotin was exposed to a similarly intense burst of radiation.
  — Sarah Watts, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2018
• Tides, radioactivity, chemistry and youth: These ingredients, when mixed in the right way, can produce — and sustain — oceans on these icy moons.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023
• While officials in the United States say the water is free of radioactivity, the city of Windsor on the Canadian side is raising concerns.
  — Alec Snyder, CNN, 6 Dec. 2019
• Curie would publish a new paper on radioactivity in 1910, which led to her second Nobel Prize, this time a solo award in Chemistry.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2021
• Her focus was the new and exciting field of radioactivity.
  — Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2023
• In some units, the level of radioactivity detected was many times the amount set by federal standards.
  — oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2020
• Noyes said that the waste water will be filtered before any discharge and that any remaining radioactivity would be well below the levels deemed safe by the NRC.
  — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
• For now, all the scientists, engineers, and their allies can do is keep the radioactivity under control, track down its source, and try to capture it.
  — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 26 Apr. 2018
• The radioactivity will not even penetrate a sheet of paper.
  — Fabian Schmidt, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2018
• When wild boars consume the truffles in winter, their radioactivity levels increase, per the Post.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• The site is designed to last at least 300 years after the last shipment arrives, when the radioactivity of its contents is forecast to be no higher than levels found in nature.
  — NBC News, 4 Nov. 2021
• That would result in the dreaded core-meltdown scenario, which could lead to the release of clouds of radioactivity that would be carried by winds to sicken or kill masses of people.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2011
• Due to corporate malfeasance, pollution has overwhelmed the city, leading to disturbing cases of radioactivity.
  — Barry Levitt, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024