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radioactive fallout

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radioactive fallout [¦rād·ē·ō′ak·tiv ′fȯl‚au̇t]
(electronics)
fallout


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In such an attack, between 2 million and 20 million people would die--largely as a result of radioactive fallout, not the blasts.
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