
Joseph Silverman
Contributor
LOCATION: Silver Spring, MD, United States
Emeritus Professor of Materials and Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. Coeditor of Radiation Processing of Polymers.
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Radiation, flow of atomic and subatomic particles and of waves, such as those that characterize heat rays, light rays, and X rays. All matter is constantly bombarded with radiation of both types from cosmic and terrestrial sources. This article delineates the properties and behaviour of radiation…
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