artificial radioactivity

American  

noun

Physics.

1. radioactivity introduced into a nonradioactive substance by bombarding the substance with charged particles.

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Example Sentences

We also see Marie’s pride in Irène’s own research on artificial radioactivity, which would win her and her husband Fréderic Joliot their own Nobel prize just a year after Marie’s death.

From Nature

It found levels of artificial radioactivity in the mud were so low they would equate to being "not radioactive" in law.

From BBC

Despite having the biggest and most expensive machines, the Rad Lab missed making several key breakthroughs in particle physics, including the discovery of induced or artificial radioactivity.

From Washington Post

“I was convinced that the radioactivity levels in my body would be very low, but I was surprised that no artificial radioactivity was detectable at all,” he says.

From Nature

There are naturally occurring radioisotopes that have been in the ocean for billions of years, before man ever showed up and they occur at pretty high concentrations in organisms, much more than the artificial radioactivity introduced by Fukushima, or even Chernobyl, which was worse.

From Scientific American