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☢️ Radioactive

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☢️ Emoji meaning

Radioactivity, radiation hazard, atomic warning, science.

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☢️ Meaning

“My knee is being X-rayed” or “I'm watching a documentary about Chernobyl”! The black fan against a yellow background warns of radioactive rays. International warning sign. Warns of a threat! If the atomic nucleus decays, rays with great energy are released.

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Commonly confused with

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Radioactive

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Radioactive vs warning; both triangular/hazard icons for dangerous environments.

Radioactive

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Biohazard vs radioactive; both hazard signs used in dangerous material contexts.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Radioactive” was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 .

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ radioactive + sign

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- radioactive

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