Radioactivity
"Radioactivity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The spontaneous transformation of a nuclide into one or more different nuclides, accompanied by either the emission of particles from the nucleus, nuclear capture or ejection of orbital electrons, or fission. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D011851
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.828
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| Concept/Terms |
Radioactivity- Radioactivity
- Radioactivities
- Radioactive Disintegration
- Disintegration, Radioactive
- Disintegrations, Radioactive
- Radioactive Disintegrations
- Nuclear Decay
- Decay, Nuclear
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