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radioactively

radioactively

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In a way that gives off harmful radiation from some materials
  • adverb
  • /ˌreɪdiəʊˈæktɪvli/
  • Specialized
: radioactivamente
  • The unstable nucleus will radioactively decay to a stable species of isotope.
  • radioactively labeled

It's, it's, it's radioactively labeled as well.

Examples

  • I would imagine that since it is radioactive material, over time, it radioactively decays into material that can't be used for fission.

    Blog text (20)

  • Mars may be radioactively clean by comparison.

    Blog text (27)

  • It's, it's, it's radioactively labeled as well.

    MIT OpenCourseWare

  • These fragments are radioactively labeled and used to probe other strains' DNA that has been enzymatically cut into small pieces and separated on an agarose gel that has been subjected to electric current.

    Academic text (1994)

  • If freshly isolated zooxanthellae are incubated in the light for approximately one hour with radioactive inorganic carbon, little radioactively labeled organic carbon is released into the medium.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Nylon membranes are then hybridized to radioactively or biotin-labeled clones (i.e., specific pieces of DNA).

    Academic text (2010)

  • They then took cells that were susceptible to FMD infection and mixed them with their synthetic peptides and also with actual FMD virus that had been radioactively labeled so its presence could be easily detected.

    Academic text (1995)

  • The scientists studied how materials could behave radioactively after exposure to nuclear energy.

  • Some areas around Chernobyl are still radioactively hazardous to human health.

  • The plant emitted radioactively charged particles during the experiment.

Surface Forms

radioactively positive

Morphology

radioactively = radioactive (semi-transparent) = radio + active + ly

The step from the adjective 'radioactive' to the adverb '-ly' is a standard, transparent adjective-to-adverb formation.

Etymology

Radioactively comes from the part radio-, which comes from the Latin radius meaning 'ray' or 'beam', and the part -active meaning 'doing'. So, radioactively means 'in a way that gives off rays or radiation', which explains its use for materials that send out energy.