Below you will find example sentences with "gamma ray". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Gamma Ray in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: ray
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 9 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "gamma ray" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 26 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as the incoming gamma ray shown in, the scattered gamma ray is shown, burst, energy and shown stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with ray tracing, ray casting, sugar ray, ray tracing, ray casting and sugar ray, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with gamma ray
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
A novel gamma ray telescope under construction on Mount Hopkins, Arizona. (11 words)
A PIN photodiode can also detect X-ray and gamma ray photons. (12 words)
At any moment, without warning, a gamma ray burst could wipe out all life on Earth. (16 words)
For a surface burst, absorption of gamma rays by air would limit the range of gamma ray deposition to approximately 10 miles, while for a burst in the lower-density air at high altitudes, the range of deposition would be far greater. (42 words)
McCray 2008 Gehrels 2004 Swift is equipped with a very sensitive gamma ray detector as well as on-board X-ray and optical telescopes, which can be rapidly and automatically slewed to observe afterglow emission following a burst. (38 words)
As such, things like the 7.5 m booms for the mass and gamma ray spectrometers could only be tested using railings that tried to mimic the space environment, and so they never worked particularly well. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
The incoming gamma ray (shown in green) is scattered by the electron up into the microscope's aperture angle θ. The scattered gamma ray is shown in red.
The incoming gamma ray (shown in green) is scattered by the electron up into the microscope's aperture angle θ. The scattered gamma-ray is shown in red.
For a surface burst, absorption of gamma rays by air would limit the range of gamma ray deposition to approximately 10 miles, while for a burst in the lower-density air at high altitudes, the range of deposition would be far greater.
Gamma rays are better absorbed by materials with high atomic numbers and high density, although neither effect is important compared to the total mass per area in the path of the gamma ray.
The IPN detects gamma ray bursts (GRBs); since gamma rays cannot be focused with mirrors, it was very difficult to locate GRBs with enough accuracy to study them further.
A PIN photodiode can also detect X-ray and gamma ray photons.
For x-ray, gamma ray and electron irradiation, shielding is required when the foods are being irradiated.
McCray 2008 Gehrels 2004 Swift is equipped with a very sensitive gamma ray detector as well as on-board X-ray and optical telescopes, which can be rapidly and automatically slewed to observe afterglow emission following a burst.
At any moment, without warning, a gamma ray burst could wipe out all life on Earth.
Century Geophysics calibrates it's downhole tools in the US Department of Energy uranium logging Test pits in to ensure the accuracy of the down hole gamma ray log measurements.
All fine and dandy until a gamma ray burst, or Yellowstone erupts, or AI, or a huge asteroid or ET's kill everyone.
In 2000, the Compton Gamma Ray telescope re-entered our atmosphere after 10 years of observations of high-energy events in our universe.
A novel gamma ray telescope under construction on Mount Hopkins, Arizona.
A new survey of downward terrestrial gamma ray flashes suggests the rare electromagnetic phenomena is linked with cloud-to-ground lightning.
Dawn will collect gamma ray and neutron spectra, which help scientists understand variations in the chemical makeup of Ceres’ uppermost layer.
A gamma ray with roughly 2 MeV of energy is produced in this reaction, but because this is below the detector's energy threshold they are not observable.
An example would be detection of radioactive contamination in a gamma ray background, which could increase the total reading above that expected from the contamination alone.
A single gamma ray photon, for example, might carry ~100,000 times the energy of a single photon of visible light.
As such, things like the 7.5 m booms for the mass and gamma ray spectrometers could only be tested using railings that tried to mimic the space environment, and so they never worked particularly well.
A tidal disruption event of this sort is when a star interacts with a supermassive black hole shredding the star, and in some cases creating a relativistic jet which produces bright emission of gamma ray radiation.