Ejemplos de uso de ionizing radiation
1. A: Ionizing radiation has the potential to change molecules in living cells, including their genetic makeup.
2. There are two basic types of radiation: ionizing radiation (X–rays, infrared light, gamma rays) and non–nuclear emissions (ultraviolet light, microwave radiation, mobile phone waves). It is usually only ionizing radiation that concerns health officials.
3. Radon gas escapes easily from the ground into the air and emits heavily ionizing radiation called alpha particles.
4. In the spring, political appointees quietly scrapped work on another long–pending regulation of hazardous exposure to ionizing radiation in mailrooms, food warehouses, and hospitals and airports.
5. "Exposure to ionizing radiation during radiological tests constitutes a small but real augmented risk of malignancies," Levy wrote in the circular.