radiosteel

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English

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Etymology

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From radio- +‎ steel.

Noun

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radiosteel (countable and uncountable, plural radiosteels)

  1. Steel having radioactive impurities introduced during the steelmaking process
    • 1980, Frank Kendig, Richard Hutton, Life-Spans, or, How Long Things Last‎[1], New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 184:
      Niobium 94, a common component of radiosteel, has a half-life of 20,000 years.
    • 2004, Marko Hämäläinen, “Radiosteel: Radioactive Sources in the Steelmaking Process; Simulation of the Distribution of Radioactivity Having Accidentally Entered Into a Steelmaking Shop”, in Helsinki University of Technology Publications in Materials Science and Metallurgy‎[2], Helsinki: Helsinki University of Technology, →ISBN:
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