nonradioactive
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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I fear touch football has become the last nonradioactive subject matter at Thanksgiving.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
The melters will be tested using first a nonradioactive waste simulant and then radioactive waste before the facility is turned over for waste-treatment operations.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2023
Comparing these sequences from the power plant dogs, the Chernobyl City dogs and purebred shepherds living in nonradioactive environments might help the researchers identify radiation-related changes in the genome.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2023
If the specimen is less than 50,000 years old, bones, charcoal and other organic substances can be dated based on the percentage of radioactive carbon that has degraded to a nonradioactive nitrogen.
From Scientific American • Dec. 8, 2022
This method is based on the slow decay of radioactive carbon 14, a very minor component of carbon, the ubiquitous building block of life, into the nonradioactive isotope nitrogen 14.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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