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low-background lead

low-background lead noun: lead with low inherent radiation levels, suitable for instruments and experiments highly sensitive to radiation.

Noun

low-background lead (countable and uncountable, plural low-background leads)

  1. Lead with low inherent radiation levels, suitable for instruments and experiments highly sensitive to radiation.
  2. Lead sourced from ancient shipwrecks, where the deep sea environment has kept it from accumulating radiation from outside sources, and where inherent radiation has decayed away in the time it has been sunk.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see low-background, lead.

Forms of low-background lead

plurallow-background leads

Questions about low-background lead

What does low-background lead mean?
Low-background lead means lead with low inherent radiation levels, suitable for instruments and experiments highly sensitive to radiation.
What part of speech is low-background lead?
Low-background lead is a noun.
What is the plural of low-background lead?
The plural of low-background lead is low-background leads.

Words near low-background lead in the dictionary

  1. low yo-yo
  2. low yo-yos
  3. low%
  4. low-alcohol
  5. low-background
  6. low-background lead
  7. low-background steel
  8. low-beam
  9. low-beams
  10. low-bell
  11. low-bells

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