artificial radioactivity

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radioactivity /ra·dio·ac·tiv·i·ty/ (ra″de-o-ak-tiv´ĭ-te) emission of corpuscular or electromagnetic radiations consequent to nuclear disintegration; it is a natural property of all chemical elements of atomic number above 83 and and can be induced in all other known elements.radioac´tive

artificial radioactivity , induced radioactivity that produced by bombarding an element with high-velocity particles.

The radioactivity of isotopes that have been artificially produced through the bombardment of naturally occurring isotopes by subatomic particles or by high levels of x-rays or gamma rays. Also called induced radioactivity.

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