How can a person come in contact with radio active material?

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Answer #1

Get an x-ray…why, exactly do you need to know?

Answer #2

are you doing a project for school? You are asking for a lot of information on highly active and dangerous material.

Answer #3

usually at a hospital

Answer #4

go near a nuclear power plant, or a dump zone , better yet pray your abducted by aliens , radiation is a sure

Answer #5

Hospital X-rays are produced from a high potential stream of electrons hitting an anode in an x-ray tube. Sharp x-ray imaging require the radiation to come from a small point so images produced with radiation gamma ray decay would not be as useful.

Nuclear medicine does use a number of radioactive materials though.

Answer #6

lol…spoilsport.

Answer #7

yes and i just want to know how i could its part of a project on nuclear radiation exposure.

Answer #8

Ah. Gotcha, good luck! I don’t know if you’d be able to actually get your hands on any of the material.

Answer #9

Grab a banana! All bananas have a very low dose of radioactive pottasium within them :)

Answer #10

As someone else said, eat a banana. The smoke alarms in your house are radioactive too. Lots of things are radioactive, it just refers to molecules that are decaying naturally.

Answer #11

their is radiation all around us, it gets through the atmosphere from stars, it is found in radioactive elements in our soil and so on.

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