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artificial radioactivity

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noun

Physics.
  1. radioactivity introduced into a nonradioactive substance by bombarding the substance with charged particles.


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From that byway last week came two words in a combination new to physicists the world over: artificial radioactivity.

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Dr. Lawrence and his associates have done the most intensive work in the U.S. on artificial radioactivity.

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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

The Curie-Joliots' first results in artificial radioactivity have been duplicated and extended in a half-dozen countries, especially by California's Lawrence and Italy's Fermi.

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Lawrence replied defensively that “the radio-sodium experiments were instigated by me alone,” adding, “I did suggest looking for artificial radioactivity this way and actively supervised the experiments.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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