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atomic garden

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.91 in modern English

Syllables
atom-ic -gar-den
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A facility where plants are intentionally exposed to gamma radiation (often from a Cobalt-60 source) to induce beneficial mutations, creating new, improved crop varieties with desirable traits like disease resistance or higher yields, a practice used since the 1950s for developing new foods and materials; llants are arranged in concentric circles, with radiation levels decreasing further from the central source, leading to different effects: death near the source, severe abnormalities in the middle, and useful mutations (like better fruit or stress tolerance) in the outer rings.

Inflected Forms

atomic gardens (plural)

Phrases

atomic gardening

Frequently Paired Words

atomic gardening

Synonyms

gamma garden

Questions

What does atomic garden mean?
A facility where plants are intentionally exposed to gamma radiation (often from a Cobalt-60 source) to induce beneficial mutations, creating new, improved crop varieties with desirable traits like disease resistance or higher yields, a practice used since the 1950s for developing new foods and materials; llants are arranged in concentric circles, with radiation levels decreasing further from the central source, leading to different effects: death near the source, severe abnormalities in the middle, and useful mutations (like better fruit or stress tolerance) in the outer rings.

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