fission product
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Huang: Because of her work on fission product decay.
From Scientific American • Aug. 24, 2023
The population surrounding Chernobyl was not warned that iodine-131—a radioactive fission product that can enter the food chain—had contaminated milk and other locally produced agricultural products.
From Slate • Apr. 26, 2016
Especially frightening was the fallout of strontium 90, a deadly fission product that settles in bones and may cause cancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it is a fission product formed in nuclear reactors, and it has to be dealt with during the purification of reactor fuels.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was odd, they thought; cobalt 60 is not a fission product, and it had not been found in other radioactive material, even in samples from much closer to Ground Zero.
From Time Magazine Archive
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