Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
luminescence produced by bombardment withionizing radiation
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word radioluminescence.
Examples
-
She came to Vienna twice and spent more than two years at the institute, joining Przibram's research group on radioluminescence. 140 In the summer of 1925, another American woman, Marie Farneworth, wrote to Meyer asking his permission to spend six months at the Vienna Institute.
-
Even before she completed her thesis, Kara-Michailova entered the institute and collaborated closely with Przibram on determining the phenomenon of radioluminescence.
-
Przibram's group contributed greatly to the understanding of radioluminescence and Pettersson's collaborators seriously challenged assumptions about the nature of the atomic nucleus put forward by Rutherford and his colleagues at the Cavendish laboratory in England.
-
But inside the factory, where nearly every surface sparkled with radioluminescence, these dangers were unknown.
Archive 2006-12-01 The Nag 2006
-
But inside the factory, where nearly every surface sparkled with radioluminescence, these dangers were unknown.
Radium Girls vs The US Radium Corp. The Nag 2006
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.