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Home Dictionary Name: gammaGamma ray
A very penetrating electromagnetic ray not appreciably deflected by a magnetic or electric field emitted by radioactive substances Gamma rays are photons of electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength shorter than that of X rays i e shorter than 01 nanometer and are correspondingly more penetrating than X rays In addition to being given off in certain types of radioactive decay they may be found in cosmic radiation though they are largely absorbed by the earths atmosphere Gamma ray detectors orbited above the atmosphere have found bursts of gamma radiation in some cases associated with visually observed supernova explosions but in most cases from unidentified sources...
gamma
The third letter Gamma gamma Eng G of the Greek alphabet...
C
C is the third letter of the English alphabet It is from the Latin letter C which in old Latin represented the sounds of k and g in go its original value being the latter In Anglo Saxon words or Old English before the Norman Conquest it always has the sound of k The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek Gamma gamma and came from the Greek alphabet The Greeks got it from the Phoelignicians The English name of C is from the Latin name ce and was derived probably through the French Etymologically C is related to g h k q s and other sibilant sounds Examples of these relations are in L acutus E acute ague E acrid eager vinegar L cornu E horn E cat kitten E coy quiet L circare OF cerchier E search...
nuclear resonance
The resonance absorption of a gamma ray by a nucleus identical to the nucleus that emitted the gamma ray...
Pyrone
An unsaturated cyclic compound C5H4O2 of which two varieties are known alpha and gamma gamma pyrone is the parent substance of several natural yellow dyestuffs...
Becquerel rays
Radiations first observed by the French physicist Henri Becquerel in working with uranium and its compounds They consist of a mixture of alpha beta and gamma rays...
Cadmean
Of or pertaining to Cadmus a fabulous prince of Thebes who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet alpha beta gamma delta epsilon iota kappa lambda mu nu omicron pi rho sigma tau upsilon These are called Cadmean letters...
Gammadion
A cross formed of four capital gammas formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments etc See Fylfot...
ionizing radiation
rays of rapidly moving subatomic particles x reys or gamma rays sufficiently energetic to cause ionization when absorbed by matter...
VerbarMedia
One of the sonant mutes beta delta gamma b d g in Greek or of their equivalents in other languages so named as intermediate between the tenues pi tau kappa p t k and the aspirataelig aspirates phi theta chi ph or f th ch Also called middle mute or medial and sometimes soft mute...
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