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Radioactivity
Definition 1
The quality of emitting or the emission of corpuscular or electromagnetic radiations consequent to nuclear disintegration, a natural property of all chemical elements of atomic number above 83 and possible of induction in all other known elements. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
Giving off radiation. (NCI Dictionary)
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