Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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radioactivity | Yes | No | No | No |
corpuscular radiation | Yes | No | No | No |
radioactivity (noun) | corpuscular radiation (noun) |
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the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay | 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) |