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Definition of Corpuscular radiation

1. Noun. A stream of atomic or subatomic particles that may be charged positively (e.g. alpha particles) or negatively (e.g. beta particles) or not at all (e.g. neutrons).

Medical Definition of Corpuscular radiation

1. Radiation consisting of streams of subatomic particles such as protons, electrons, neutrons, etc. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corpuscular Radiation

Literary usage of Corpuscular radiation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chemical Effects of Alpha Particles and Electrons by Samuel Colville Lind (1921)
"... Theory of the Chemical Effects of corpuscular radiation. In the foregoing chapters the chemical effects of the radiations, particularly of the a rays, ..."

2. X Rays by George William Clarkson Kaye (1917)
"The heavy elements give off both scattered and characteristic rays. As to the corpuscular radiation, there is in general a more copious emission, ..."

3. The Principles of Physics and Biology of Radiation Therapy by Bernhard Kroenig, Walter Friedrich (1922)
"It is not an electro-magnetic wave but a corpuscular radiation. As is well known it consists of electrons which move about with a more or less great ..."

4. Radium Therapy in Cancer at the Memorial Hospital, New York: First Report by Henry Harrington Janeway (1917)
"There is no evidence that /J-rays induce a secondary corpuscular radiation. But they are scattered through wide angles in passing through matter and a ..."

5. The New Science of the Fundamental Physics by William Walker Strong (1918)
"Hooke supported the wave theory while Newton upheld the view that light consisted of the propagation of some sort of corpuscular radiation. ..."

6. Radioactive substances and their radiations by Ernest Rutherford (1913)
"very valuable as a means of separation of radio-active substances, and has also added another very interesting type of corpuscular radiation for study. ..."

7. The Recent Development of Physical Science by William Cecil Dampier Dampier (1904)
"... resistance to the drag of the anchor, or to some other means of dissipating energy, such as inter-corpuscular radiation, not yet fully understood. ..."

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