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Instead of using cobalt or other radioactive materials, Wilson’s team uses an X-ray machine to irradiate the pests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024

In practice, however, this is of little use -- after all, it would be tedious to repeatedly irradiate the wall with intense UV light in order to drive the self-cleaning process.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024

Inexplicable fires first obliterate Japanese freighters and irradiate fish, a ripped-from-the-headlines echo of the Lucky Dragon No. 5 incident—a Japanese tuna ship showered in radioactive fallout from the Castle Bravo thermonuclear test at Bikini Atoll.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 3, 2023

But thanks to a $14 million grant from the Department of Defense, the refurbished K-500 will irradiate chips to see how they perform under challenging conditions resembling those in space.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 12, 2023

All his work since then had culminated in a factory that could irradiate two hundred tons of uranium at a time to produce a half pound of plutonium every two hundred days.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

In one of the experimental approaches, the cemented carbide rod leads the direction of fabrication while the laser directly irradiates the top of the rod.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

Rebecca understood that while regular radiation irradiates all the tissue it travels through, proton therapy delivers the full dose to the tumor and then it stops.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2019

The French conductor’s luminous elegance irradiates Menuhin’s intense humanity; there’s nothing else quite like it in the extensive discographies of either artist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2016

Heeger’s team irradiates the fibroblasts to prevent them from replicating during this process.

From Nature ● May 9, 2016

A chearful temper irradiates the progress of life, and dispels the evils of sublunary nature.

From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Amelia Stratton Comfield

Those molecules change shape when irradiated by the sun, flexing into a strained version of their regular form.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

The fruit, after being harvested, must be irradiated at one of a handful of certified government facilities in India, inspected by a U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

The irradiated vessels were towed to Hunters Point, and used as the material and hardware upon which scientists tested decontamination methods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

As Bonlieu toiled away in Auckland, Warrior crew members were moving a community of cancer-stricken Marshall Islanders, ignored by the American government that had irradiated their atoll, to a new home.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

A further calculation gave Seaborg pause: the irradiated uranium would be ferociously radioactive.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Herein, the mixing technique utilizes an ultrasonic phased array, which creates a focal point where droplets can float randomly via irradiating ultrasonic waves from a 7 × 7 grid of ultrasonic transducers with phase-shifting.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 17, 2023

Although a disk herniation definitely can be a possible cause of pain irradiating in the leg, it is only rarely a cause of local back pain.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 21, 2023

He also appeared to propose irradiating patients' bodies with UV light, an idea dismissed by a doctor at the briefing.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2020

On Peleliu, men fought in the irradiating heat and on coral, which made finding shelter well-nigh impossible.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2017

Plastic is the new protector; we wrap the already plastic tumblers of hotels in more plastic, and seal the toilet seats like state secrets after irradiating them with ultraviolet light.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas