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nonradioactive

American  
[nahn-ray-dee-oh-akt-iv] / ˌnɑnˌreɪ di oʊˈækt ɪv /

adjective

  1. not radioactive.


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I fear touch football has become the last nonradioactive subject matter at Thanksgiving.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

The melters will be tested using first a nonradioactive waste simulant and then radioactive waste before the facility is turned over for waste-treatment operations.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2023

Comparing these sequences from the power plant dogs, the Chernobyl City dogs and purebred shepherds living in nonradioactive environments might help the researchers identify radiation-related changes in the genome.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2023

Suppose we measure the amount of uranium relative to nonradioactive elements in a very old star and in our own Sun, and compare the abundances.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

This method is based on the slow decay of radioactive carbon 14, a very minor component of carbon, the ubiquitous building block of life, into the nonradioactive isotope nitrogen 14.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond