Question

what is the different between natural radioactivity and artificial radioactivity?​

Answer 1

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As it is in other contexts, the idea of “natural” is essentially meaningless. All radiation is natural; it arises from the same physics of the situation in every case. Therefore natural and artificial radiation is the same thing and cannot be told apart from its cause, creation or effects.

Such facts don’t deter either lawmakers or advertising agencies. They have the god-given right to redefine terms as that wish, and therefore we have artificial radiation. Artificial radiation turns out to be radiation caused through the implementation of either nuclear weapons (usually their testing) or generated in nuclear power plants. This is as opposed to natural radiation which has existed in unmined rocks and bombarding us from outer space. By legislation, nuclear power plant waste is artificial, while that released by burning coal is natural, though either is equally able to cause cancer in rough proportion to its concentration.

Answer 2

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• The phenomenon of spontaneous and continuous and uncontrollable disintegration of an unstable nucleus accompanied by the emission of active radiations is called natural radioactivity. The substance which exhibits radioactivity is called a radioactive substance. e.g. Uranium, thorium, radium, etc.

• Induced radioactivity, also called artificial radioactivity or man-made radioactivity, is the process of using radiation to make a previously stable material radioactive.

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