'irradiation' is a correct word in written English.
It is used to refer to the process of exposing something to radiation in order to sterilize, disinfect, or to energize it. You can use it in the following example sentence: The irradiation of certain foods helps to protect them from spoilage.
Yet since so few irradiated foods are available at present, a more credible reason is cost: irradiation adds about six cents a pound to the price.Curiously, one company that may not insist on irradiation is Jack in the Box, the hamburger chain where the 1993 E.coli outbreak took place.
In America leafy greens are responsible for over a fifth of all food-borne illnesses (more than any other food), despite processing that often involves nasty chemicals and unpopular irradiation treatments.
The others mated with beetles rendered sterile by irradiation.
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation and the International Atomic Energy Agency (yes, really) have been using this technique, called irradiation, to generate random mutations.
THE meat industry has wanted the Food and Drug Administration FDAA) to approve irradiation of red meat for three years.
Now that the FDA has finally approved irradiation, will the pattern be broken Irradiation, which was first discovered to prolong beef's freshness in the 1940s, exposes meat to cobalt-60 gamma rays.
America's Food and Drug Administration has recently approved the irradiation of red meat to kill nasty bugs a technique already allowed for poultry, fruits and vegetables.
Although irradiation of poultry was approved several years ago, it is used sparingly, mostly for chicken and turkey sold for hospital meals.
It is also used in neutron radiography, in airport neutron-activation detectors for nitrogenous materials (i.e., explosives), and for the irradiation of tumours for which gamma-ray treatment is relatively ineffective.
The four lightest of these isotopes have proved useful in determining the ages and irradiation histories of meteorites and lunar samples.
Not occurring in nature, einsteinium (as the isotope einsteinium-253) was first produced by intense neutron irradiation of uranium-238 during the detonation of nuclear weapons.
