nucleonics
Americannoun
noun
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The study of the quantum behavior of atomic nuclei, in particular of the transitions they make between discrete energy levels as they emit and give off radiation.
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Development of instruments for use in nuclear research.
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Nuclear Processes
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Sproul raised cash for young Physicist Ernest O. Lawrence to build the first cyclotron, and Berkeley was suddenly the nucleonics hotspot of the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Can the physicists with their nucleonics and the cyberneticists with their computers wash themselves of culpability for the blinding light they have created?
From Time Magazine Archive
To apply its fabulous technology, the U.S. military has become an extraordinary teacher of everything from astronautics to electronics to nucleonics to teaching itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Steel mills, nucleonics plants, and vast chemical complexes that will provide fertilizer to replace the lost Nile silt, are rising in what the Cairo press calls "the Pittsburgh of Egypt."
From Time Magazine Archive
It's a term borrowed from nucleonics, and best understood in that context.
From The K-Factor by Harrison, Harry
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