low-background steel
low-background steel noun: steel with low inherent radiation levels, suitable for instruments and experiments highly sensitive to radiation.
Noun
low-background steel (countable and uncountable, plural low-background steels)
- Steel with low inherent radiation levels, suitable for instruments and experiments highly sensitive to radiation.
- Steel created before 1945, and not contaminated by radioisotopes originating from nuclear bomb tests and explosions, and other nuclear technology radioactivity releases.
- The high alloy steel that was recovered from the Tirpitz was valuable owing to the fact that it was one of the few sources of low-background steel—steel produced prior to the detonation of the atomic bombs.2018, Daniel Knowles, Tirpitz: The Life and Death of Germany's Last Great Battleship, Fonthill Media
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see low-background, steel.
Forms of low-background steel
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Origin of low-background steel
Ellipsis of low background radiation steel.
Questions about low-background steel
- What does low-background steel mean?
- Low-background steel means steel with low inherent radiation levels, suitable for instruments and experiments highly sensitive to radiation.
- What part of speech is low-background steel?
- Low-background steel is a noun.
- What is the plural of low-background steel?
- The plural of low-background steel is low-background steels.
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