gamma ray
noun
: a photon emitted spontaneously by a radioactive substance
also
: a photon of higher energy than that of an X-ray
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Also produced in lesser amounts are gamma rays, which don’t cause much tissue damage but allow healthcare providers to track in real time where the drug is distributed in the body.
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Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024
The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) mission features a gamma-ray telescope that will scan the sky to study gamma rays emitted by the explosions of massive stars and the end of their lives.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 July 2024
Progressively shorter still are x-rays and then gamma rays, the latter with wavelengths shorter than about 10 picometers (or one one-hundredth of a nanometer).
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 July 2024
That 2017 event marked the first time astronomers had all of the necessary pieces of information to confirm predictions about the merging of neutron stars and the production of gravitational waves followed by signals in gamma rays, X-rays, optical and infrared light.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
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Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024
The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) mission features a gamma-ray telescope that will scan the sky to study gamma rays emitted by the explosions of massive stars and the end of their lives.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 5 July 2024
Progressively shorter still are x-rays and then gamma rays, the latter with wavelengths shorter than about 10 picometers (or one one-hundredth of a nanometer).
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 July 2024
That 2017 event marked the first time astronomers had all of the necessary pieces of information to confirm predictions about the merging of neutron stars and the production of gravitational waves followed by signals in gamma rays, X-rays, optical and infrared light.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
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“Gamma ray.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gamma%20ray. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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