Polonium contains especially alpha rays and a few gamma rays. In the case of uranium, the alpha rays have extremely slight penetrating power, and cannot even impress photographic plates.
That was the dangerous kind, because both beta particles and gamma rays could penetrate clothing and skin.
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Natural phenomena such as mass extinctions, supernovae andgammaraybursters are more problematic for civilization.
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Recent investigations of cosmologicalgammaraybursts suggest that these too could cause ozone depletion.
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The exact form of the source modulation and the nuclear-resonant thickness of the resonant absorber determines the shape of the time-differential resonantgammaraytransmission spectrum.
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To my knowledge,gammarayirradiation has been known to scientists for over 30 years.
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We know all that there is to be known aboutgammarayirradiation at the present time.
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The chamber would manipulate thegammarayinto a way that it could be recorded.
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At present, ytterbium is mainly used as a dopant of stainless steel or active laser media, and less often as agammaraysource.
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This lowgammarayproduction rate makes it more difficult to find and identify this isotope.
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The atom is not ionised, and thegammaraycontinues on, although at a lower energy.
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During this interaction, energy is transferred from thegammarayto the electron, which is a directly ionizing particle.
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A secondarygammaraywith less energy (hence lower frequency) also emerges from the interaction.
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The neutron can be detected by its capture on an appropriate nucleus, releasing agammaray.
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Iridium-192 is also a stronggammarayemitter.
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Iridium-192 is commonly used as agammaraysource in industrial radiography to locate flaws in metal components.
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The constituent elements of the sample absorb some of these neutrons and emit prompt gamma rays which are measured with agammarayspectrometer.
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