Definition of "nonradioactive" [nonradioactive]

• Not radioactive; not generating radioactivity. (adjective)

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• "Nuclear Plant Entergy Corp. said Friday its Indian Point nuclear-power station in New York was completely offline after the second of two operating units was shut because of a nonradioactive water leak."
• "The thyroid cannot distinguish 131I from the nonradioactive form."
• "Radiocarbon dating works because, when alive, an organism takes in carbon from the air or through the food chain; carbon contains small amounts of the radioactive isotope carbon-14, which decays into nonradioactive standard carbon at a constant rate; when the organism dies it ceases to ingest carbon, so the proportion of carbon-14 in its remains steadily decays."