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atomic gardening

atomic gardening noun: the exposure of plants to radioactive sources, typically cobalt-60, in order to generate mutations that may prove to have useful properties.

Noun

atomic gardening (uncountable)

  1. The exposure of plants to radioactive sources, typically cobalt-60, in order to generate mutations that may prove to have useful properties.

Questions about atomic gardening

What does atomic gardening mean?
Atomic gardening means the exposure of plants to radioactive sources, typically cobalt-60, in order to generate mutations that may prove to have useful properties.
What part of speech is atomic gardening?
Atomic gardening is a noun.

Words near atomic gardening in the dictionary

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

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