lead shielding in a sentence
Examples
- According to IAEA's sources, the radioactive powder was placed in the back of a truck, with heavy lead shielding to protect the driver, and driven over fields, to expose planted seeds to radiation.
- Additional preparations of the room necessary are 2-3mm lead shielding and potentially enforcement of the floor or ceiling to hold the additional weight of the imaging system ( approximately 650 1800 kg ).
- She discovered that radiation treatment could ( in mice ) completely destroy a malignant tumor without otherwise harming the subject; she also improved use of lead shielding, and discovered that the effects of radiation varied with the emission medium.
- He later devised a special type of X-ray couch with lead shielding, and he began to caution against the previous setups that required exposure of the radiographer's lower body to the X-ray beam, but he is thought to have been exposed to large amounts of radiation by that time.
- Magnus goes about scavenging materials from various items ( gold from a gold watch, lead from lead shielding, mercury from thermometers, and tin from cans of baked beans which he adopts as his sole diet-presumably in order to ensure the other scientists will not want to spend too much time with him, as well ).
- He is instructed by Morbius to be helpful to the Earthmen and does so by synthesizing and transporting to their landing site 10 tons of " isotope 217 ", a light-weight though effective replacement for the requested lead shielding needed to house the C57-D s main stardrive to power an attempt to contact Earth base for further instructions.
- I suppose something with very thick lead shielding encased in a large amount of ablative diamond might survive long enough to be interesting-but whatever instruments you carried to examine the sun would be cooked by the heat and radiation long before they could get any interesting readings-so this wouldn't be much of a useful mission ! talk ) 16 : 37, 31 December 2007 ( UTC)