artificial radioactivity
Americannoun
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Positrons have now been produced at the rate of 30,000 per second by gamma rays, and the Curie-Joliots of Paris observed them shooting out of light-weight elements in their first experiments with artificial radioactivity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anderson had also declared himself for this particle; Gamow of Russia thought it might help to explain artificial radioactivity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence, just as the spontaneous radioactivity of radium turns it finally into lead, the end-product of boron's artificial radioactivity is carbon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The story concerned University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, No. 1 U. S. experimenter in artificial radioactivity, whose 85-ton electromagnet frequently makes scientific news.
From Time Magazine Archive
No laboratory in the world was as well equipped as theirs to discover artificial radioactivity, for none was as capable of such sustained bombardment.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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