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Usage of background radiation in English
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Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced.
A short history of nearly everything
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Close to the middle of the bridge, the background radiation spiked again
Metro 2034
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His headset was silent except for the faint static of background radiation.
Caliban's War
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There's still some background radiation-whichI hope to God stays for weeks, months.
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow ...
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The background radiation confused advanced sensors, forcing me to manually zap the reptiles.
Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain
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The background radiation was also climbing, his poor abused flesh sucking in more rads.
Leviathan Wakes
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This may, however, explain the higher-than-normal background radiation levels.
Ghosts of Onyx
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Raise the background radiation filter's threshold another twelve percent.
Stars rain down
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The universe is expanding, and the wavelength of the cosmic microwave background radiation has stretched.
Palimpsest
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Information flooded his mind: TARIS readings, various images from long-range telescopes and spectrographs, background radiation signals.
Book Two: Descent
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This happened with the microwave background radiation and it is happening now with gamma ray bursts.
Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries
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Yes, there is an X-ray background radiation-cosmicX-rays
Wired
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On an average the levels are only 10 times greater than the region's natural background radiation.
Trinity Site: 1945-1995. / A National Historic Landmark, White S...
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Since background radiation is always present, organisms have adjusted accordingly by selecting, evolving, or sometimes just succumbing.
The world without us
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The background radiation is not precisely uniform.
Reuters
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As for the rats, I assume they were created by mutation from high levels of background radiation.
The Big U