radionuclide
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- noun
- /ˌreɪdiəˈnuːklaɪd/
- Specialized
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radionúclido
- Radionuclides are often used in radiation therapy to target and destroy cancer cells.
- radionuclide ventriculography
- radionuclide scan
- detect radionuclides
So greens and things that uptake radionuclides from the soil, like Moss and mushrooms are totally off limits in a large range of this area.
- So greens and things that uptake radionuclides from the soil, like Moss and mushrooms are totally off limits in a large range of this area.
Examples
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The detection of radionuclides in soil samples indicated contamination from nearby industrial processes.
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The importance of radionuclide bone imaging studies has diminished since MRI became widely available.
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But anyway, you can see how this these radionuclides spread worldwide pretty quickly.
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Further epidemiologic studies should show whether exposure to radionuclides from food and water also contributed to these effects.
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A matrix removal procedure was thus undertaken to purify target radionuclides from a raw urine sample.
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The maximum deposition on Earth's surface of radionuclides from those explosions took place in 1964.
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For forty years, scientists knew that radionuclides from reactors along the Columbia River accumulated in body tissue.
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Reindeer herding communities can be particularly vulnerable because reindeer accumulate radionuclides efficiently through eating lichen.
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Radiological contaminants in drinking water often result from the leaching of naturally occurring radionuclides in geologic structures into groundwater supplies.
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Researchers studied the effects of radionuclides on human health after the nuclear accident.
Synonyms
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An atom that is unstable and gives off radiation
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Radionuclide combines radio- (from a Latin word meaning 'ray', the same idea as in radiation) and nucleus (a Latin word meaning 'core', like the 'nucleus' of a cell). So a radionuclide is an atom whose 'core' gives off 'rays', which is why the word means a radioactive atom used in medicine and science.