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- fission products) and also releases gamma radiation and free neutrons.Health ... Hirsch fusors are used to produce neutron radiation. *Radioactive decay ...45 KB (6,704 words) - 00:40, 17 November 2022
- possible nuclear accident and on fears of radiation, as well as in opposition ... uses--for example, aircraft production, radiation shielding, and making bullets ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- of the potentially dangerous ultraviolet radiation in sunlight and gives color ... allows precise control of energy loss by radiation, convection and conduction ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 22:09, 12 October 2022
- ground state of U-236 by emitting gamma radiation. Further neutron capture ... McMillan and Philip Abelson at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University ...37 KB (5,382 words) - 08:10, 24 November 2022
- amounts of energy both as electromagnetic radiation and as kinetic energy of ... and fragments, and as electromagnetic radiation in the form of gamma rays; ...31 KB (4,827 words) - 10:09, 11 March 2023
- art, and the physics of electromagnetic radiation in the visible range (what ... Electromagnetic radiation is characterized by its wavelength (or frequency ...32 KB (4,860 words) - 22:38, 7 January 2024
- great at this initial stage of penguin radiation: on Seymour Island, Antarctica ... Palaeospheniscinae, as well as the radiation which gave rise to the ...36 KB (5,093 words) - 17:12, 26 March 2023
- (needed for disease prediction models), solar radiation and wind speed (needed to calculate evapotranspiration), and sometimes also soil moisture, crucial ...8 KB (1,232 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- survive wider extremes of temperature, radiation, and drought in the harsh ... fluctuating temperatures and cosmic radiation. After 15 days, the lichens ...19 KB (2,789 words) - 22:35, 25 October 2022
- from the Sun. This additional heat radiation is produced by the "Kelvin ... field collects a large flux of particle radiation in Jupiter's radiation ...33 KB (5,016 words) - 16:30, 14 May 2024
- above freezing or by direct solar radiation. By late spring, snow densities ... The snowpack absorbs solar shortwave radiation that is partially blocked ...18 KB (2,780 words) - 21:42, 30 January 2023
- Crust and Mantle Using Self-Descending, Radiation-Heated, Probes and Acoustic ... Crust and Mantle Using Self-Descending, Radiation-Heated, Probes and Acoustic ...21 KB (3,036 words) - 02:57, 6 November 2022
- nuclei, which are stable because the sun's radiation is very weak at their distance. The cloud provides a continual supply of new comets, replacing ...10 KB (1,441 words) - 10:34, 11 March 2023
- second, producing neutrinos and solar radiation. Current theory predicts ... Sun itself is opaque to electromagnetic radiation. However, just as seismology ...52 KB (7,953 words) - 22:23, 26 February 2023
- blocks harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation from reaching the Earth; ... . Here it filters harmful ultraviolet radiation from sunlight. Ozone can ...20 KB (3,107 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- in a nuclear reactor, it can later serve as a radiation source in portable X-ray devices. *The unstable isotope Tm-171 could possibly be used ...9 KB (1,135 words) - 23:14, 30 April 2023
- * They emit enough high-frequency ultraviolet radiation to trigger ... by massive doses of gamma ray and X-ray radiation which might prove lethal ...54 KB (8,172 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- These pits are sensitive to infrared radiation, in effect giving the snakes ... When prey comes into range, infrared radiation falling onto the membrane ...19 KB (2,781 words) - 19:53, 7 May 2020
- | known_for = Theory of EM radiation | prizes = [[Image:Nobel.svg|20px]] Nobel Prize for Physics (1902) | religion = | footnotes = ...19 KB (2,850 words) - 09:47, 25 June 2024
- the power to convert invisible ultraviolet radiation into radiation of longer wavelengths that are visible. The Stokes shift, which describes this ...20 KB (3,027 words) - 15:59, 20 May 2024
