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- From: mica@world.std.com (mitchell swartz)
- Subject: irradiated
- Message-ID: <C0ppJ1.72K@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:06:36 GMT
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- In article sci.physics.fusion:4845, Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993
- Tom Droege (DROEGE@fnald.fnal.gov) writes:
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- >> "Almost any source could be used for test, but a little
- >> patience would give a cosmic ray. I would not worry too
- >> much about getting radiated until I saw a track or two.
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- It is respectfully noted that ought be "irradiated".
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- The electrode might radiate (or it might not),
- but if it did, and Tom Droege was in the incident beam,
- then he would be irradiated.
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- == "radiated -- to send out rays, shine brightly"
- == "irradiated -- to cast rays of light upon,
- to affect or treat by radiant energy"
- [after Webster (ibid)]
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- One should not work so long or so hard as to confuse
- one's self and the experiment. Unless...
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