Vocabulary

• due to: Because of; owing to
• scale up: To increase in size, number, or extent.
• on the other hand : Considering a different aspect of the matter; alternatively.
• in comparison: When compared to something else.
• also known as: Also called; alternatively named.
• rack up: To accumulate or amass something, typically debts or points.
• as follows: Used to introduce a list or explanation.
• phenomenon: Unusual event, fact that can be studied
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• potentially: That could happen or become reality
• spectrum: The wavelengths of colors from red to violet
• manifest: List of cargo on a ship
• exposure: Allowing light through a cameras lens onto film
• achieve: To succeed in doing good, usually by working hard
• interact: To talk or do things with each other
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
• overwhelm: To defeat something or someone completely
• decade: Period of 10 years
• nausea: Feeling of sickness so that you feel like vomiting
• overcome: To succeed in a struggle against; defeat
• fuel: To give power to (a mob, anger, etc.); incite
• absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
• escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• rare: (Of meat) cooked, but still red and juicy
• intact: Being complete, without damaged or missing parts
• fatal: Causing death; having very bad consequences
• comparison: Act of comparing things
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• scientific: Concerning academic study of the physical world
• due: When something is required or expected
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• examine: (Medical) to test to find out what is wrong
• acute: (Of an angle in math) of less than 90 degrees
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• energy: Physical or mental strength
• radiation: Energy transmitted as rays, waves or particles
• gain: To increase in something, such as weight
• detect: To discover or identify the presence of something
• expose: To make visible, without covering or protection
• randomly: With no pattern or clear purpose; by chance
• trace: To make an outline to determine a shape
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• emit: To release or send out (a gas, etc.)
• magnetic: Having the properties of a magnet; able to attract
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
• daily: Happening every day
• potassium: A common, soft, silvery white metal with many uses
• cellular: Concerning a cell of a living thing
• repel: To make or force someone or something go away
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• nucleus: Center of an atom
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• electromagnetic: Having magnetic and electrical parts
• ultraviolet: Concerning light waves that are extremely short
• dysfunction: Failure to act as expected, as in a social context
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• unit: One apartment in a building
• dosage: Measured amount of medicine or drug
• radioactive: Emitting harmful energy from nuclear activity
• oscillate: To keep moving back and forth many times
• ion: Atoms with either a positive or negative charge
• dna: Chemical in living cells with genetic information
• radon: Radioactive gas coming naturally from the ground
• gamma: Third letter of the Greek alphabet