nonradioactive

adjective

non·ra·dio·ac·tive ˌnän-ˌrā-dē-ō-ˈak-tiv

: not of, caused by, or exhibiting radioactivity : not radioactive

nonradioactive carbon

nonradioactive waste

Examples of nonradioactive in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web If the specimen is less than 50,000 years old, bones, charcoal and other organic substances can be dated based on the percentage of radioactive carbon that has degraded to a nonradioactive nitrogen. —

Pat Shipman, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2022

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