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nonradioactive

American  
[nahn-ray-dee-oh-akt-iv] / ˌnɑnˌreɪ di oʊˈækt ɪv /

adjective

  1. not radioactive.


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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

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

A Richland company, Fluid Controls and Components, is supplying 108,000 pounds of the glass beads, or frit, needed for the nonradioactive commissioning of the Low Activity Waste Facility.

From Seattle Times Oct. 9, 2022

He had also begun negotiating a contract with Eastman Kodak for large-scale industrial production of these nonradioactive substances.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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