Physiological Effects of Ionizing Radiation A nuclear burst results in four types of ionizing radiation: neutrons, gamma rays, beta, and alpha radiation.
Compared to gamma rays, they can cause 20 times more damage to tissue.
Gamma rays, emitted during the nuclear detonation and in fallout, are uncharged radiation similar to X rays.
In fact, health officials in Canada have recently approved the use of gamma rays on potato tubers that will be stored and later used for human food.
Our own Food and Drug Administration has given similar approval for applying gamma rays to bacon and fast electrons to wheat (for killing insects).
Until a few years ago, it was difficult to measure the number of gamma rays of a particular energy that were being emitted by a mixture of radioactive isotopes unless there were only a few such gamma rays with very different energies.
We can appreciate the sensitivity of whole body counters by comparing the number of gamma rays recorded by the instruments with the total number emitted from the body being counted.
For example, gamma rays emitted by potassium-40 have 1.
A somewhat similar device uses strontium-90 as the source of beta radiation that in turn stimulates the emission of gamma rays from a target within the instrument.
Radioactivity is defined as the property, possessed by some materials, of spontaneously emitting alpha or beta particles or gamma rays as the unstable (or radioactive) nuclei of their atoms disintegrate.
This makes it possible to record alpha particles and discriminate against gamma rays.
It includes electromagnetic radiation ranging from radio waves, infrared heat waves, visible light, ultraviolet light, and X rays to gamma rays.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gamma rays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
