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radioactive contaminant

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radioactive contaminant [¦rād·ē·ō′ak·tiv kən′tam·ə·nənt]
(nucleonics)
A radioactive material which has spread to places where it may harm persons, spoil experiments, or make products or equipment unsuitable or unsafe for some specific purpose.
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