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Radioactive

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  • 1. A radiation quality inhering in bearer by virtue of the bearer's exhibiting or being caused by radioactivity. (Ontobee, Phenotype And Trait Ontology). 2. A Quality that inheres in a bearer in virtue of that bearer exhibiting or being caused by radioactivity. (MatPortal, Common Core Ontologies (Merged)). 3. Having or producing powerful and dangerous energy that comes from the breaking up of atoms (Cambridge dictionary). 4. Of, caused by, or exhibiting radioactivity (Merrima-Webster dictionary). 5. The property of a nuclide of undergoing spontaneous nuclear transformations with the emission of radiation. (IUPAC)

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https://purls.helmholtz-metadaten.de/skosmos/sdv/Radioactive

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