Sentence examples for discovery of radioactive from inspiring English sources

But in October 2006, officials at Spain's energy research agency, Ciemat, reported the discovery of radioactive snails, necessitating more work.

The discovery of radioactive cesium in a number of products last month has greatly undermined public trust in the safety of produce from the region, even if, as the government says, the amount that was found was tiny.

The discovery of radioactive emissions, constant and unilinear, in 1896, seemed at once to support the linear conception of time and to provide a means of measuring it independently of sidereal bodies.

Moreover, the discovery of radioactive elements that experts say could come only from the core of a reactor suggest that the government's strategy may not be working and that partial fuel melting has not been completely halted.

Before the discovery of radioactive decay, geologists believed that earth's inner heat was the residual heat of its formation from a molten ball.

But a firm date 4.5 billion years couldn't be established until the discovery of radioactive elements to date everything from textiles to stones.… geology and natural history buffs will discover a rich,..

THIS year is the 100th anniversary of the Nobel-prize-winning experiments by Marie and Pierre Curie into the origins of radioactivity, and their discovery of the radioactive elements polonium and radium.

With the discovery of radioactivity and the recognition that radioactive isotopes within the planet provide a continuing internal source of heat, it became clear that Thomson's conclusion that Earth was less than 100 million years old was incorrect, but his argument that Earth suffers an irreversible loss of energy remains valid.

It required the extension in 1898 of radioactivity to another known element, thorium (by Gerhard Carl Schmidt and independently by Marie Curie), and the discovery of new radioactive materials, polonium and radium (by Pierre and Marie Curie and their colleague, Gustave Bémont), to awaken the world and Becquerel to the significance of his discovery.

This was also the attitude adopted by the Joliot-Curies for the discovery of artificial radioactive isotopes.

Her discovery of new radioactive elements, including polonium and radium, won her the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911.