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  • noun Plural form of nuclide.

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  • This results in less long-lived nuclides in high-level wastes (the fission products being preferable due to shorter lives).

    Fast neutron reactors (FBR) 2009

  • Radio-nuclides such as Alpha particles, Beta particles, Photon Emitters, Radium 226/228, and Uranium erode from natural deposits and may eventually lead to cancers in those who consume water with maximum contaminant levels.

    Drinking Water Quality & The Contamination of Public Drinking Supplies 2007

  • These 300 nuclides consist of 36 elements, with isotopes ranging from zinc-72 to terbium-161.

    Physicists against the nuclear option Sean 2006

  • On this way cosmogenic nuclides in space, in bodies, and in atmospheres are created.

    Road Map « Climate Audit 2005

  • A study of the properties of these nuclides would reveal that given the threshold energy of the reaction, sodium and chlorine would combine, sharing an electron to form a stable molecule that might be called salt.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • Stars would form, and through the temperature and pressures within the cores of the stars and their subsequent supernovae as the stars exploded, nuclides of the remaining eighty-eight stable elements would form.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • A study of the properties of these nuclides would reveal that given the threshold energy of the reaction, sodium and chlorine would combine, sharing an electron to form a stable molecule that might be called salt.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • Stars would form, and through the temperature and pressures within the cores of the stars and their subsequent supernovae as the stars exploded, nuclides of the remaining eighty-eight stable elements would form.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • * The only high values obtained for radioactive nuclides, in this instance caesium and cobalt, were obtained only in the immediate vicinity of the cracked drums.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Together these clayey materials play a major role in the retardation of radioactive nuclides.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

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