background radiation

Nuclear (or ionizing) radiations arising from within the body and from the surroundings to which individuals are always exposed.

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Noun

background radiation - radiation coming from sources other than those being observed

background signal, background - extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured; "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"

Translations

taustasäteily

radiazione di fondo

bakgrunnsstråling

bakgrundsstrålning

background radiation

n (Phys) → natürliche Strahlung f

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background radiation

n → radiazione f di fondo

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The natural vinegar coming from plants will have traces of carbon with natural radioactivity, unlike those made from synthetic raw material.

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Taiyen Biotech responded to the accusation made by Taiwan's legislator Kao Chin Su-mei at a news conference Thursday that three of the salt substitutes manufactured by the company contain high levels of radiation by quoting the statement of the country's Atomic Energy Council (AEC) that the products' containing natural radioactivity would do no harm to the human body but it also said it would send the ingredient of the salt substitutes, potassium chloride, for an assay.

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The results obtained in this work, revealed by the first time radon water contamination describing the health hazard related to the natural radioactivity present in the Riacho das Cachoeira dam.

Influence of natural radon and metal contamination on surface water quality from a Brazilian Semiarid Region/Influencia da contaminacao natural pelo radonio e metais na qualidade das aguas superficiais da Regiao Semiarida Brasileira

Therefore, natural radioactivity in soil varies from one location to another due to the extensive use of fertilizer which is the main source of radioactivity in soil other than its natural origin [3, 4].

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The gamma-ray response is a measure of low-level, natural radioactivity that is correlated with the organic content found in petroleum source rocks.

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The height came when scientists discovered how the forces within atoms behave by observing natural radioactivity and decay of certain elements and became able to control the most powerful force of nature, the nuclear force and gave birth to nuclear reactors.

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The nuclear industry not only digs up and distributes buried natural radioactivity while mining uranium, it renders the uranium hundreds of thousands of times more radioactive by the process of nuclear fission in currently operating power-generating reactors.

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The natural radioactivity background originates from thorium and uranium series from 40K and from the cosmic radiation interaction with matter [1 3].

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