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  • Irradiate insects in a laboratory because radiation makes the insects sterile.

    DK Matai: Genetically Modified Insects: What Next? 2010

  • To Irradiate Spinach, Lettuce The Food and Drug Administration cleared the way for food companies to irradiate fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce to kill germs and extend shelf life, but because of consumer resistance, many companies may not rush to adopt the technology.

    FDA Will Allow Food Companies 2008

  • Saidi Yommi Adebiyi, 42, from Brook Street in Luton was among 12 people charged with drug trafficking offences during a covert operation run by Bedfordshire Police last month code-named Operation Irradiate.

    Luton Drugs bust - Operation irradiate Lionheart 2007

  • What better way to say, "Irradiate your prezzies before unwrapping" than giving an Xmas package containing a talking Shrub doll that says things like "Freedom will be defended" and "I come from Texas?"

    Boing Boing: December 1, 2002 - December 7, 2002 Archives 2002

  • Irradiate -- _there_ plant eyes; all mist from thence

    Obiter Dicta Second Series Augustine Birrell 1891

  • Fluorescence can be found in certain organic dyes: Irradiate them within a certain wave length range, and they emit their own light with a greater wavelength.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • Irradiate your body with mammography in order to prevent cancer!

    Signs of the Times 2010

  • Irradiate your body with mammography in order to prevent cancer!

    Signs of the Times 2010

  • Shine inward, and the Nfind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mlli from thence I'urge and difperfe, that I may fee and tell Of things invtiiblc to mortal fight.

    A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain.. 1795

  • Neither should we forget some times to pray that God may clear away from our souls all error and prejudice — ‘The mind through all its powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mists from thence Purge and disperse’; and that, as years go on and our faculties in the course of nature become weaker and narrower, and our limbs are old and our blood runs cold, instead of creeping into ourselves we may still be expanding like the flower before the sun in the divine presence, and cheered by the warmth of the divine love.

    Sermons on Faith and Doctrine by the Late Benjamin Jowett, M.A., Master of Balliol College 1817-1893 1901

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