radioactive dust

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   the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion

   Synonymsfallout

   Broaderdust

Questions about radioactive dust

What does radioactive dust mean?

radioactive dust means "the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion".

What is another word for radioactive dust?

Close synonyms include fallout. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is radioactive dust a common word?

radioactive dust is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.