Meanings of alpha rays in English

The first-named constitutes the beta, and the second the alpha rays.

They have about a hundred times less ionizing power than the alpha rays.

Joshie regarded the nine-foot fiberglass Buddha that furnished his otherwise empty office, its blissed-out gaze emitting alpha rays.

Those are the alpha rays.

Only a fraction of an inch, not enough to cut off the deadly alpha rays, protected the wearers of those articles.

The alpha rays are positively charged, and are projected at a speed which may attain the tenth of that of light; M.H.

Moved to the edge of the room like a punished child, felt the alpha rays of Joshie's fiberglass Buddha stroking my being.

The Alpha rays constitute ninety-nine per cent, of all the rays and consist of positively electrified particles.

"Then it is the alpha rays with which we are concerned mostly now?"

The Beta rays consist of negatively charged particles or corpuscles approximately one thousandth the size of those constituting the Alpha rays.

"Now, the alpha rays are the shortest," he launched forth, "in length let us say one inch.