actinism
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Origin of actinism
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Of or pertaining to actinism; as, actinic rays.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
It is the centre from which an inconceivable amount of force in the shape of light, heat, actinism, and probably other manifestations, is hourly poured forth.
From Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science by Ackland, T. S. (Thomas Suter)
What the ray will do depends solely upon what kind of matter it falls upon, and all three of these names, light, heat, and actinism, are names of effects of radiant energy.
The mechanism must be sensitive, as such properties of matter as heat, light, electricity, magnetism, and actinism, are to be handled, caused to vanish and reappear, analyzed and measured.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various
More than three hundred years have elapsed since the influence and actinism of light on chloride of silver was observed by the alchemists of the sixteenth century.
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