What are three benefits of radioactivity?
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Radioactivity tracers are commonly used in the medical field and also in the study of plants and animals. Radiation is used and produced in nuclear reactors, which controls fission reactions to produce energy and new substances from the fission products. Radiation is also used to sterilize medical instruments and food.
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Radiation can be useful
As we've seen from the above narrative, radiation can be harmful, even cause death. However, it can also be most helpful.
Cancer Treatment:
Gamma rays are capable of passing deep inside the body and damage cells on their travels. But as well as causing cancer, they can be used to kill off cancer cells and even cure people from this illness. This treatment is called radiotherapy. Cobalt-60 is commonly used to kill cancer cells. The idea is to aim accurately at these cells with the correct strength. Utilizing radiation to combat cancer is an important career, earn your radiation therapy degree and help society.
Killing Microbes:
Gamma rays successfully kill microbes that cause food to decay. So food treated with this radiation have a longer shelf life. Surgical instruments and syringes are also treated with gamma rays, in order, to prevent infections been transferred from patient to patient.
Tracers:
A Geiger Counter is an instrument that measures radiation. If radioisotopes are added to oil or gas, engineers can follow the radioisotope, and trace any leaks in oil or gas pipes.
Carbon Dating:
When an animal or plant dies it stops taking in carbon. But its carbon-14 content continues to decay. If we compare the carbon-14 with that from a living thing, and knowing the half-life of carbon-14, the age of animal and plant remains can be calculated. This is known as carbon dating.
Dating Rocks:
Twelve out of every 1000 potassium atoms is the radioistope potassium-40. Its half life is a staggering twelve thousand years and decays to eventually form the stable argon atom. By measuring the argon content of many rocks that contain potassium, scientists can calculate the age of the rock.
As we've seen from the above narrative, radiation can be harmful, even cause death. However, it can also be most helpful.
Cancer Treatment:
Gamma rays are capable of passing deep inside the body and damage cells on their travels. But as well as causing cancer, they can be used to kill off cancer cells and even cure people from this illness. This treatment is called radiotherapy. Cobalt-60 is commonly used to kill cancer cells. The idea is to aim accurately at these cells with the correct strength. Utilizing radiation to combat cancer is an important career, earn your radiation therapy degree and help society.
Killing Microbes:
Gamma rays successfully kill microbes that cause food to decay. So food treated with this radiation have a longer shelf life. Surgical instruments and syringes are also treated with gamma rays, in order, to prevent infections been transferred from patient to patient.
Tracers:
A Geiger Counter is an instrument that measures radiation. If radioisotopes are added to oil or gas, engineers can follow the radioisotope, and trace any leaks in oil or gas pipes.
Carbon Dating:
When an animal or plant dies it stops taking in carbon. But its carbon-14 content continues to decay. If we compare the carbon-14 with that from a living thing, and knowing the half-life of carbon-14, the age of animal and plant remains can be calculated. This is known as carbon dating.
Dating Rocks:
Twelve out of every 1000 potassium atoms is the radioistope potassium-40. Its half life is a staggering twelve thousand years and decays to eventually form the stable argon atom. By measuring the argon content of many rocks that contain potassium, scientists can calculate the age of the rock.
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