radiosteel

English

Etymology

From radio- +‎ steel.

Noun

radiosteel (countable and uncountable, plural radiosteels)

1. Steel having radioactive impurities introduced during the steelmaking process
   • 1980, Frank Kendig, Richard Hutton, Life-Spans, or, How Long Things Last‎^[1], New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 184:

     Niobium 94, a common component of radiosteel, has a half-life of 20,000 years.

   • 2004, Marko Hämäläinen, “Radiosteel: Radioactive Sources in the Steelmaking Process; Simulation of the Distribution of Radioactivity Having Accidentally Entered Into a Steelmaking Shop”, in Helsinki University of Technology Publications in Materials Science and Metallurgy‎^[2], Helsinki: Helsinki University of Technology, →ISBN: