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Example sentences for "radiation"

Lexicographically close words:
radiate; radiated; radiately; radiates; radiating; radiations; radiator; radiators; radical; radicalism
  1. Radiation of the heat is very great in some parts of Africa, as in the northern sections.

  2. So rapid is this radiation of heat that ice is said to be formed sometimes during the night when water is left exposed to the atmosphere.

  3. The diminished radiation of light produced a weird effect, growing more spectral as the sun sank in the heavens.

  4. A beard-like radiation of roots decorated its head, and its bill was extremely delicate.

  5. To describe the endless flight and counter-flight, the concentration and radiation of the wayleals in grand review, would be impossible.

  6. From him came radiation of endurance, and, objecting to being endured, I spoke impatiently.

  7. You must be the couple we--" "Sound the radiation alarm.

  8. He gaped until she poised the needle points before his eyes and repeated: "Sound the radiation alarm.

  9. Crew and passengers were protected as much as possible from radiation encountered in space and that which originated in the ship's drive.

  10. According to analysis, Man someday might be able to endure the radiation encountered in space as long as three years, if exposure times were spaced at intervals.

  11. Few people take that much exposure to radiation at one time.

  12. The radiation that damaged genes and chromosomes and tinier divisions also struck nerve cells.

  13. I only say that, in addition to the best possible electronic instrument, you need an operator who thoroughly understands radiation equipment.

  14. And you're going on to tell me that you can take your doodlebug up in an airplane and spot a radiation halo surrounding any oil deposit.

  15. Halos or circles of radiation can be detected on the surface of the earth around the edges of every oil deposit.

  16. Also, you should have a crew of geologists and geophysicists who know how to balance radiation findings against those established by other methods.

  17. Cutting such an animal across in a transverse section, we shall see the radiation of the partitions from the centre to the circumference, showing still more distinctly the typical structure of the division to which it belongs.

  18. The radiation is equally distinct in each of these; but here again the mode of execution differs from that of the two other classes.

  19. The intensity of insolation and of radiation both increase aloft in the cleaner, purer, drier and thinner air of mountain climates.

  20. The intensity of direct insolation, as well as of radiation from the earth's surface, may produce heat prostration and sunstroke.

  21. Fogs are less common in winter, when they occur as radiation fogs, of no great thickness.

  22. Climate, in so far as it is controlled solely by the amount of solar radiation which any place receives by reason of its latitude, is called solar climate.

  23. As a rule, even when the sky is clear, about one-half of the solar radiation is lost during the day by atmospheric absorption.

  24. They sent the advance unit out to scout the new planet in the Ambassador, homing down on the secret beeping of a featureless box dropped by an earlier survey party.

  25. That you don't cut, not with a piece of the Sun's core.

  26. The whole radiation or branchings shadowing the stock and the root, the leaves, the branches and fruit, too much exposed to the windes and scorching Sunne.

  27. They had a commodious radiation in their growth; and a due expansion of their branches, for shadow or delight.

  28. A few had been burned, but it seemed that for the most part the soldiers had been sheltered from direct radiation by the wall of their canyon, and by Kazu's great shadow.

  29. In many respects, it was the most interesting of all, for the bomb blast and the accompanying deluge of gamma radiation occurred just at the instant of conception.

  30. It was called radiation injury, the internal destruction of cell structure by gamma rays emitted by the bomb.

  31. Therefore, the early history of the family Geomyidae is characterized by an early radiation and trend toward specialization, followed by survival of the less specialized Geomyinae and extinction of the more specialized Entoptychinae.

  32. The radiation of the Geomyini was well under way by the close of the late Pliocene.

  33. Those blades evidently were lost in the main lineage before the Pleistocene radiation of the living genera took place.

  34. At least four lineages were produced by the Plio-Pleistocene radiation (see Fig.

  35. Adaptive radiation produced the living genera of the Geomyini in the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene (see Fig.

  36. Zygogeomys, Geomys, Orthogeomys, and Pappogeomys are lineages resulting from a Pleistocene radiation in which all the lineages diverged from a common Pliocene ancestor.

  37. That tribe has not undergone an adaptive radiation comparable to that of the tribe Geomyini or that of the Entoptychinae in the early Miocene.

  38. Radiation within the genus may have begun relatively recently, but the many special adaptations for tropical environments suggest that the genus has been in the Neotropical Zone a long time.

  39. I've caught some of the radiation leakage from the big transmitter.

  40. And the Radiation Laboratory sent a gang to try the five planets of Sirius.

  41. Finally, column 14 shows the effective radiation received by the sun from each star when the star is at a minimum distance.

  42. The significance of dust at high levels and its relation to solar radiation have already been discussed in connection with volcanoes.

  43. Humphreys gathers together and amplifies all that he and Abbot and Fowle have previously said as to observations of the sun's thermal radiation by means of the pyrheliometer.

  44. Clayton: Variation in Solar Radiation and the Weather; Smiths.

  45. The credit for showing that it is a consequence of the existence of radiation pressure combined with the principles of thermodynamics is due to Bartoli and Boltzmann.

  46. This, to be sure, is on the assumption that the radiation of energy from incandescent bodies varies according to temperature in the same ratio as the radiation from black bodies.

  47. For this reason the effective radiation of that star as given in column 14 is doubled in Fig.

  48. This is because ice serves as a blanket and hinders the radiation of heat from the underlying water.

  49. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that the sun's radiation is not constant, but is subject to innumerable variations.

  50. The symptoms of concussion were either general, and then usually transient, or local paralysis of the radiation variety, which also rapidly improved.

  51. In men struck at a shorter range, signs of concussion, often followed by transient radiation signs of injury to the parietal lobe, were common.

  52. For most sources of radiation carbonic acid is one of the most transparent of gases; for the radiation from the hot carbonic acid produced in the carbonic oxide flame it is the most opaque of all.

  53. I thought it worth while to try whether a body reputed to be analogous to carbonic acid, and so pervious to most kinds of heat, would show any change of deportment when presented to the radiation from hot carbonic acid.

  54. For the radiation from carbonic acid, the same layer of bisulphide transmits only 25 per cent.

  55. If it does, then the bisulphide, like the carbonic acid, will abandon its usually transparent character, and play the part of an opaque body when presented to the radiation from the carbonic oxide flame.

  56. Of the radiation from hydrogen, a thin layer of bisulphide transmits 90 per cent.

  57. But if the resistance of the circuit is small, and in wireless circuits it is usually so small as to be negligible, the currents will oscillate, until their energy is damped out by radiation and other losses, as shown at B.

  58. To adjust the transmitter so that the circuits will be in tune you should have a hot wire ammeter, or radiation ammeter, as it is called, which is shown in Fig.

  59. Scientists may continue to predict, as they have been predicting, the day when solar radiation will cease, but their predictions will prove as worthless as the sighing of the summer wind, so far as reality is concerned.

  60. There is nothing lost, no radiation of energy dispersed upon the unformed, lifeless ether.

  61. On the other hand, when the angular rise of cotyledons or of leaves is small, such as less than 30o, the diminution of radiation is so slight that it probably is of no significance to the plant in relation to radiation.

  62. Although they cannot fail to protect the organs of reproduction from radiation at night, this does not seem to be their chief function, but rather the protection of the organs from cold winds, and especially from rain, during the day.

  63. Not but that a lesser diminution of radiation may be advantageous to a plant, as in the case of Datura stramonium, the cotyledons of which rose from 31o at noon to 55o at night above the horizon.

  64. Hence it appears, as far as these few trials tell anything, that the vertical position at night of the cotyledons of Mimosa pudica protects them to a certain degree from the evil effects of radiation and cold.

  65. Cassia pubescens, copied from photographs, he will see that the diameter of the plant at night is about one-third of what it is by day, and therefore the surface exposed to radiation is nearly nine times less.

  66. Their radiation never ceases till they are disintegrated; and if you are sensitive you can receive their messages.

  67. The mercury suddenly fell below the freezing point at sunset; and from early morning the radiation was so powerful, that a thermometer exposed on snow sank to 21.

  68. Here I tried again the effect of solar and nocturnal radiation on the sand, at different depths, not being able to do so on the alluvium.

  69. And assuming this to be the heat of the plant, we find that the leaves are heated by solar radiation during the day 8 degrees, and cooled by nocturnal radiation, 22.

  70. The night was fine, clear, and warm, but the radiation so powerful that the grass was coated with ice the following morning, though the thermometer did not fall below 33 degrees.

  71. I did not then observe that of radiation from snow; but if, as we may assume, it was not less than on the following morning (21.

  72. The red morning sky declares that the dust particles have been protected from radiation by a blanket of overlying moisture, the air, therefore, is saturated to great heights and rain is probable.

  73. Radiation shows that the air above must be dry.

  74. But you remember that I told you that the cold was caused by the radiation of heat from the earth escaping into the air and through it.

  75. The strip of dry land is only a few hundred yards in width; on the lagoon side there was a white calcareous beach, the radiation from which, under this sultry climate, was very oppressive.

  76. The absence of all solar radiation would tend, on the contrary, to cool and contract them without this tendency.


  77. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "radiation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
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