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PARTICULATE RADIATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stream of atomic or subatomic particles that may be charged positively (e.g. alpha particles) or negatively (e.g. beta particles) or not at all (e.g. neutrons)
Synonyms:
corpuscular radiation; particulate radiation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("particulate radiation" is a kind of...):
radiation; radioactivity (the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "particulate radiation"):
alpha radiation; alpha ray (the radiation of alpha particles during radioactive decay)
beta radiation; beta ray; electron radiation (radiation of beta particles during radioactive decay)
neutron radiation (radiation of neutrons (as by a neutron bomb))
