How to Use gamma radiation in a Sentence

gamma radiation

noun
  • One sample was sent to a lab to test for gamma radiation and to see if there were any microorganisms present.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Some black holes could be wormholes, and the difference is in the gamma radiation.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2021
  • In the comics, Betty is killed by the gamma radiation that comes from the blood of Bruce Banner.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025
  • But on its way out, the cosmic ray collides with gas in the solar atmosphere and fizzles in a flurry of gamma radiation.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
  • His team sealed dirt into jars and blasted them with sterilizing gamma radiation.
    — Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026
  • This gamma radiation is so prevalent that pilots have even documented faint glows within storm clouds.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2024
  • In lab conditions, the scientists also exposed the moss to large amounts of gamma radiation.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 1 July 2024
  • This means that the wavelength of gamma radiation can be around 1,000 times smaller than visible light.
    — WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The team observed a quick flash of gamma radiation, the result of the stars crashing and sending space matter blasting through the galaxy to settle among the stars.
    — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Reiners is talking about stuff like gamma radiation that could be potentially fatal for microbes.
    — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2016
  • In a new paper, Russian scientists posit that the right blast of gamma radiation could reveal wormholes in black hole disguise.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2021
  • High doses of gamma radiation can trigger symptoms like nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, hair loss, and even death.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • But the exposure to gamma radiation took its toll on Hulk’s nearly indestructible body.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Typically, 4 to 5 Gy of gamma radiation over a short period of time is lethal to humans.
    — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2023
  • In addition, the Navy used parts of both sites as radioactive waste dumps, burying thousands of small objects that emit low-level gamma radiation.
    — Jason Fagone, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Aug. 2020
  • This is the first time microbes have been shown to survive such high levels of gamma radiation, possibly owing to the biodiversity of the natural sample.
    — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2017
  • Up until now, astronomers have had to rely on the electromagnetic spectrum—from radio waves, through visible light, to gamma radiation—to gaze at the universe.
    — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Unlike lower energy radiation that is put out by cell phones and microwaves, gamma radiation is at the very high end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2013
  • In July 1967, two of those satellites picked up a flash of gamma radiation that was clearly not the signature of a nuclear weapons test.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2022
  • In theory, dark matter particles could interact with each other, giving off gamma radiation.
    — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2010
  • After the initial discovery, astronomers debated where these bursts of gamma radiation were coming from—a critical clue for what’s powering them.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 18 July 2021
  • After the initial discovery, astronomers debated where these bursts of gamma radiation were coming from — a critical clue for what’s powering them.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 July 2021
  • Scientists made the discovery following attempts to sterilize cans of meat using high doses of gamma radiation.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The cells shut down in response to DNA-damaging agents like gamma radiation, or when a cancer-inducing gene was inserted.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Most tropical lightning storms are akin to massive pots of boiling water — but emitting bursts of gamma radiation instead of steam, according to reports in Nature.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Exposure to Cs-137 can also increase one’s risk of cancer, as a result of high-energy gamma radiation.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Painted in patriotic Swedish blue and yellow, it is festooned with large ventilation pipes that can keep out gamma radiation and other potential hazards.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Hulk later theorizes that the stones expel gamma radiation, the same radiation that gave Bruce Banner his Hulk powers.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 7 June 2019
  • Without the magnetic protection, particles from space called cosmic rays relentlessly bombard the moon’s surface and produce gamma radiation, some of which escapes.
    — Kelso Harper, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Studies of ice cores from glaciers and polar caps on Earth have found a telltale spike in gamma radiation that seemed to arrive about three million years ago, seemingly from a star that exploded some 300 light-years away.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022

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