How to Use irradiation in a Sentence

irradiation

noun
  • Sometimes irradiation gets thrown into the mix.
    — Sara Payan, Rolling Stone, 25 Feb. 2026
  • This drop in blood pressure was sustained for 20 minutes after the irradiation stopped.
    — Carrie Arnold, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2014
  • The biggest limitation is that the irradiation can be a health hazard, to both skin and eye, which is why the fixtures are placed up high, away from people.
    — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Before its 21-year-old gears gave out, the machine’s cobalt source had become so weak that irradiation sessions meant to last minutes took an hour.
    — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The irradiation process creates a fusible cleavage product that remains on the paper’s surface.
    — Etiido Uko march 28, New Atlas, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Three weeks of irradiation produces a reddish diamond while a black diamond requires about two months.
    — Joan Meiners, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Many of these molecules formed after the irradiation.
    — Siddhant Pusdekar, Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2026
  • In bone marrow transplants, the recipient must first have irradiation to remove his or her own hematopoietic stem cells.
    — Jeremy Rehm, Discover Magazine, 19 June 2018
  • Options for sterilizing cannabis include irradiation or ozone gas, as used in the food industry.
    — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Ringworm irradiation was a cheap and proactive fix for a social and microbial contagion.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2015
  • And despite Mercury’s intense irradiation, there are deep, cold craters near its poles that never see sunlight and harbor water ice.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026
  • There’s some irradiation of the liquid metal, but there’s no need to regularly replace it, and so the reactor doesn’t produce a steady stream of low-level waste.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The marijuana industry insists that irradiation is safe, but Eidem said there's no research on that with cannabis.
    — Ben Markus - Colorado Public Radio, NPR, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Once the cooling is done, the research team will evaluate how the fuel materials behaved under prolonged irradiation.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 26 June 2026
  • Usually, upon irradiation, graphite becomes dense, and volume is reduced by up to 10 percent, followed by swelling and cracking.
    — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The team has been experimenting with different spacecraft materials to see how each reacts to laser pulse emissions called irradiation.
    — Caroline Delbert and Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2021
  • These samples have now been inserted into the ATR to begin the irradiation testing campaign.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Nov. 2025
  • On days with strong solar irradiation, solar parks can already supply more than 60 percent of the country’s electricity demand.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Patients received low doses of chemotherapy and total body irradiation before the transplant, followed by other drugs for up to a year to prevent adverse reactions.
    — Maya Goldman, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Cureton noted that the project sought to determine how much uranium carbide is consumed after irradiation as the fuel’s burnup increases.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Geochemists have long questioned whether these gases came from primordial reservoirs or were added after our planet formed from irradiation by the solar wind or on helium-bearing meteorites.
    — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Should mail irradiation be extended beyond these exclusive ZIP codes, to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus?
    — Nicola Twilley, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
  • First, physicians must destroy the original immune system with chemotherapy and sometimes irradiation.
    — NBC News, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Many in the food-safety camp are already keen on more-energetic kill steps, such as irradiation, chemical treatment with ozone or chlorine compounds, or the use of high-barometric-pressure systems.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 28 July 2017
  • High irradiation countries will use solar to fuel electrolysis and export the hydrogen or its derivatives.
    — Wood MacKenzie, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Astrochemistry could also benefit from the idea that diamonds in meteorites and rocks may form through cosmic particle irradiation, rather than solely through heat and pressure.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
  • So to one day make fusion a feasible energy source, reactors will need to be built with materials that can survive the heat and irradiation generated by fusion reactions.
    — Sophie Blondel, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The hot Neptune desert demonstrates how this concept is amplified as a planet gets nearer to the star and the stellar irradiation increases exponentially.
    — Dakotah Tyler, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Hackmanite changes its color from white to purple under UV irradiation and eventually reverts back to white if no UV is present.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • The team also obtained data on temperatures, solar irradiation, and wind speed over two decades from two different Earth-observing satellite systems.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2023

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