irradiate

Instead of using cobalt or other radioactive materials, Wilson’s team uses an X-ray machine to irradiate the pests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024

In practice, however, this is of little use -- after all, it would be tedious to repeatedly irradiate the wall with intense UV light in order to drive the self-cleaning process.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024

Inexplicable fires first obliterate Japanese freighters and irradiate fish, a ripped-from-the-headlines echo of the Lucky Dragon No. 5 incident—a Japanese tuna ship showered in radioactive fallout from the Castle Bravo thermonuclear test at Bikini Atoll.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 3, 2023

According to the NRC, embrittlement occurs as a result of reactor operation when neutrons from the nuclear fuel irradiate the steel plates and welds used to construct the reactor vessel.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

Fie continued to provide Segre with metal scraps and even acceded to Segre’s request to irradiate a quantity of uranium oxide mailed from Italy so that he could continue searching for nuclear reactions.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

In one of the experimental approaches, the cemented carbide rod leads the direction of fabrication while the laser directly irradiates the top of the rod.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

Rebecca understood that while regular radiation irradiates all the tissue it travels through, proton therapy delivers the full dose to the tumor and then it stops.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2019

The French conductor’s luminous elegance irradiates Menuhin’s intense humanity; there’s nothing else quite like it in the extensive discographies of either artist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2016

Heeger’s team irradiates the fibroblasts to prevent them from replicating during this process.

From Nature ● May 9, 2016

The fruit and special work of the Holy Ghost in us is the medium, and the Spirit's light irradiates and shines upon it, and makes the heart to see them clearly.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Its three plexiglass vaults hold ghostly symbols of procreation: an irradiated vortex, the fertility goddess Hera, a DNA spiral.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

Vector control districts serving Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties have irradiated males and released them in recent years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

Those molecules change shape when irradiated by the sun, flexing into a strained version of their regular form.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

As Bonlieu toiled away in Auckland, Warrior crew members were moving a community of cancer-stricken Marshall Islanders, ignored by the American government that had irradiated their atoll, to a new home.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

A further calculation gave Seaborg pause: the irradiated uranium would be ferociously radioactive.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

New research demonstrates that fast electronic processes can be probed by irradiating the materials with ions first.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024

Although a disk herniation definitely can be a possible cause of pain irradiating in the leg, it is only rarely a cause of local back pain.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 21, 2023

Biologists are irradiating thousands of male mosquitoes in labs, to be released later, in the hope that their offspring will be unviable because of DNA damage.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2023

The trick of irradiating and releasing millions of male flies is older and more widespread than the article reported, however.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2019

Plastic is the new protector; we wrap the already plastic tumblers of hotels in more plastic, and seal the toilet seats like state secrets after irradiating them with ultraviolet light.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas