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radioactive elements advantages and disadvantages ​

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Radioactive element can help us for making atomic bomb is advantage and the radioactive atomic bomb can destroy world is the disadvantage

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Q. Radioactive elements advantages and disadvantages.

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Radioactive elements :- Those elements which emits alpha, betta and gamma rays due to make themselves stable from unstable condition is known as radioactive elements.

Ex :- Radium, Uranium, thorium, plutonium.

Reason :- The main reason of radiating such rays is their heavy nucleus.

Advantage of radioactive elements.

  • It is used in radio therapy or curing various diseases. (Co-60) is used to cure cancer.

  • It is used by archeologist to find the dating of bones with the help of carbon (C-14) dating method.

  • It is used to produce energy in nuclear power plants.

Disadvantages of Radioactive elements.

  • They are harmful for organism because they radiate harmful radiation which causes skin cancer.

  • The radioactive elements are used to produced nuclear weapons which is harmful and can leads to mass destruction.

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