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Meaning of low-background lead | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Lead with low inherent radiation levels, suitable for instruments and experiments highly sensitive to radiation.
    countable, uncountable
  2. Lead sourced from ancient shipwrecks, where the deep sea environment has kept it from accumulating radiation from outside sources, and where inherent radiation has decayed away in the time it has been sunk.
    countable, uncountable
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see low-background, lead.
    countable, uncountable

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

low-background steel low-beam low-bell low-born low-calorie low-carber

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