different between irradiation vs tholin

English

Etymology

From Middle French irradiacion, from Latin irradiatioMorphologically irradiate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

irradiation (countable and uncountable, plural irradiations)

1. An act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.
2. (obsolete) illumination; irradiance; brilliance.
3. (obsolete, figuratively) mental light or illumination.
4. (obsolete) The apparent enlargement of a bright object seen upon a dark ground, due to the fact that the portions of the retina around the image are stimulated by the intense light; as when a dark spot on a white ground appears smaller, or a white spot on a dark ground larger, than it really is, especially when a little out of focus.
5. (uncountable) a process of sterilisation whereby radiation is passed through a bag containing food, utensils, etc., to sterilise the contents.

Derived terms

• photoirradiation

Translations

French

Pronunciation

Noun

irradiation f (plural irradiations)

1. irradiation

Further reading

• “irradiation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

irradiation (plural irradiationes)

1. irradiation

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (tholós) (“muddy”) +? -in. Coined by Carl Sagan and Bishun Khare in 1979. From the muddy coloration that this class of chemical compounds appear to have, when observed on the Saturnian moon Titan, and from Miller–Urey-style experiments.

Noun

tholin (plural tholins)

1. (organic chemistry, astronomy) Any of several poorly classified heteropolymers derived from simple hydrocarbons and ammonia formed by solar irradiation in the atmospheres of icy planets and moons.

Descendants

• ? French: tholin
• French: tholine

Translations

Anagrams

• Hilton

French

Etymology

From English tholin, from Ancient Greek ????? (tholós) +? -in

Noun

tholin m (plural tholins)

1. tholin; masculine of tholine