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BETA RADIATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Radiation of beta particles during radioactive decay
Synonyms:
beta radiation; beta ray; electron radiation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("beta radiation" is a kind of...):
ionizing radiation (high-energy radiation capable of producing ionization in substances through which it passes)
corpuscular radiation; particulate radiation (a stream of atomic or subatomic particles that may be charged positively (e.g. alpha particles) or negatively (e.g. beta particles) or not at all (e.g. neutrons))