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121Annihilation radiation — is a term used in Gamma spectroscopy for the gamma radiation produced when a particle and Antiparticle collide. Most commonly, this refers to 511 keV gamma rays produced by a gamma ray undergoing Pair production [Knoll, G: Radiation Detection and …
122Synchrotron Radiation Center — The Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC), located at the University of Wisconsin Madison, [ [http://www.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin] ] was originally built around Tantalus, a 240 MeV electron storage ring, which was a legacy of the Midwestern… …
123ionizing radiation — noun high energy radiation capable of producing ionization in substances through which it passes • Hypernyms: ↑radiation • Hyponyms: ↑alpha radiation, ↑alpha ray, ↑beta radiation, ↑beta ray, ↑electron radiation, ↑ …
124chronic radiation dose — A dose of ionizing radiation received either continuously or intermittently over a prolonged period of time. A chronic radiation dose may be high enough to cause radiation sickness and death but, if received at a low dose rate, a significant… …
125Ordovician radiation — The Ordovician radiation was the diversification of animal life at the start of the Ordovician period, just 40 million years after the Cambrian explosion.It followed a series of extinction events at the Cambrian Ordovician boundary, and the… …
126enhanced radiation weapon — noun A neutron bomb • • • Main Entry: ↑enhance * * * enhanced radiation weapon, a nuclear weapon designed to release large amounts of high energy neutron radiation with lesser blast effects; neutron bomb: »Regular tactical nuclear weapons create… …
127ECHIDNA - High Resolution Powder Diffractometer — ECHIDNA is the name of the new neutron High Resolution Powder Diffractometer at Australia s new research reactor OPAL, ANSTO. The instrument serves to determine the crystalline structures of materials using neutron radiation analogical to X ray… …
128Cherenkov radiation — Light produced by charged particles when they pass through an optically transparent medium at speeds greater than the speed of light in that medium. For example, when electrons from a nuclear reactor travel through shielding water, they do so at… …
