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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, caused by, or causing radiolysis

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Examples

  • These molecular fragments are called radiolytic byproducts.

    Mmmm…Cold Pasteurized Burgers Anyone? John 2007

  • The Organic Consumers Association—which has used Blinky's image in separate anti-"Frankenfood" publications—warns of "irradiation-induced vitamin deficiencies, the inactivity of enzymes in the food, DNA damage, and toxic radiolytic products in the food."

    Europe's Organic Food Scare 2011

  • The Organic Consumers Association—which has used Blinky's image in separate anti-"Frankenfood" publications—warns of "irradiation-induced vitamin deficiencies, the inactivity of enzymes in the food, DNA damage, and toxic radiolytic products in the food."

    Europe's Organic Food Scare 2011

  • “Debris that bears the same chemical, radiolytic, and quantum signatures as the large alien artifact that the Gorn have appropriated.”

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • “Debris that bears the same chemical, radiolytic, and quantum signatures as the large alien artifact that the Gorn have appropriated.”

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • “Debris that bears the same chemical, radiolytic, and quantum signatures as the large alien artifact that the Gorn have appropriated.”

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • But that is just one of potentially thousands of different radiolytic byproducts of irradtiation.

    Mmmm…Cold Pasteurized Burgers Anyone? John 2007

  • Cause chemicals used on the food to form completely new, foreign chemicals called unique radiolytic products URPs with unknown effects

    The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007

  • Cause chemicals used on the food to form completely new, foreign chemicals called unique radiolytic products URPs with unknown effects

    The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007

  • We do know that for irradiated fats, long-chain carbon based molecules, the radiolytic byproducts include 2-ACB, a chemical shown to cause colon cancer in mice.

    Mmmm…Cold Pasteurized Burgers Anyone? John 2007

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