radioactive material

1. 1.

   material that is radioactive

   Broadermaterial

   Narrowerradioactive waste

Questions about radioactive material

What does radioactive material mean?

radioactive material means "material that is radioactive".

Is radioactive material a common word?

radioactive material 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.