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atomic garden

atomic garden noun: a facility where plants are intentionally exposed to gamma radiation (often from a Cobalt-60 source) to induce beneficial mutations, creating new, improved crop varieties with desirable traits like disease resistance or higher yields, a practice used since the 1950s for developing new foods and materials; llants are arranged in concentric circles, with radiation levels decreasing further from the central source, leading to different effects: death near the source, severe abnormalities in the middle, and useful mutations (like better fruit or stress tolerance) in the outer rings.

Noun

atomic garden (plural atomic gardens)

  1. A facility where plants are intentionally exposed to gamma radiation (often from a Cobalt-60 source) to induce beneficial mutations, creating new, improved crop varieties with desirable traits like disease resistance or higher yields, a practice used since the 1950s for developing new foods and materials; llants are arranged in concentric circles, with radiation levels decreasing further from the central source, leading to different effects: death near the source, severe abnormalities in the middle, and useful mutations (like better fruit or stress tolerance) in the outer rings.
    Synonyms:
    gamma garden

Synonyms of atomic garden

Forms of atomic garden

pluralatomic gardens

Questions about atomic garden

What does atomic garden mean?
Atomic garden means a facility where plants are intentionally exposed to gamma radiation (often from a Cobalt-60 source) to induce beneficial mutations, creating new, improved crop varieties with desirable traits like disease resistance or higher yields, a practice used since the 1950s for developing new foods and materials; llants are arranged in concentric circles, with radiation levels decreasing further from the central source, leading to different effects: death near the source, severe abnormalities in the middle, and useful mutations (like better fruit or stress tolerance) in the outer rings.
What part of speech is atomic garden?
Atomic garden is a noun.
What is the plural of atomic garden?
The plural of atomic garden is atomic gardens.

Words near atomic garden in the dictionary

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  2. atomic formula
  3. atomic formulae
  4. atomic formulas
  5. atomic fusion
  6. atomic garden
  7. atomic gardening
  8. atomic mass
  9. atomic mass number
  10. atomic mass numbers
  11. atomic mass unit

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