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radiogenic, a.|reɪdɪəʊˈdʒɛnɪk|
[f. radio- 3, 4 + -genic (in sense 1 after photogenic).]
1. Well suited for broadcasting by radio; providing an attractive subject for a radio broadcast.
1928Radio Times 24 Aug. 342/2 Their object is to discover..a form (or forms) of drama which shall be truly ‘radiogenic’. 1931T. H. Pear Voice & Personality xii. 149 England has greater artistic variety of ‘radiogenic’ material. 1943S. Lewis Gideon Planish xxxii. 418 The..Great Leaders: Governor Blizzard and..the dazzle-sounding, radiogenic Winifred Marduc Homeward. 1946Electronic Engin. XVIII. 207/3 Transatlantic Quiz, even if radiogenic, is not pictorial and there seems no good reason for transplanting it into television. 1959Listener 27 Aug. 332/2 Radiogenic in the extreme, Miss Jacob led her interlocutors more of a dance than anyone else in this series since Thurber. 1975Encounter Sept. 43 This short play..has appeared in book form; but so totally radiogenic is its very nature that the printed page cannot represent it.
2. Produced by or resulting from radioactive decay or ionizing radiation.
1935Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. LVII. 470/2 There seems to be no definite trend in the relation of the atomic weight of uranium lead to the period during which the radiogenic lead has been forming. 1947Endeavour VI. 104/1 The present rates of production of radiogenic lead are known with a remarkable degree of accuracy. 1960New Scientist 5 May 1114/3 No evidence of radiogenic mutations has been discovered so far. 1970Nature 5 Dec. 906/1 It could be..that the Moon is expanding slowly as a result of radiogenic heating. 1971Brit. Med. Bull. XXVII. 68/1 There were about 15 times as many spontaneous cases as radiogenic cases.
Hence radioˈgenically adv., by means of radioactive decay.
1956Sci. News XXXIX. 14 Any helium nuclei produced radiogenically would all be of mass 4. 1970Nature 23 May 692/1 These dykes have been radiogenically aged at 2,420 million years. |