radioactivity

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There, Erikson teased out the stealthy, almost sinister peculiarities of modern man-made hazards, like radioactivity and toxicity, and their special, traumatic effects.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

At-211's short half-life also means it quickly loses its radioactivity, making it less toxic than longer-lived radiopharmaceuticals.

From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025

“And there’s been a lot of reasons for why this process takes so long. But, from a radiological perspective, the actual residual radioactivity at the site is pretty modest.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

The Burevestnik’s radioactivity could make it easy to detect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

The Joliots had hypothesized that the same radioactivity they had induced in boron with alpha particles would be produced by deuterons acting on carbon.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik