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Radiation hazards
Terms related to radiation and its hazards.
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x-rays
Environment; Radiation hazards
Penetrating electromagnetic radiation (photon) having a wavelength that is much shorter than that of visible light. They can be produced by excitation of the electrons around certain nuclei ...
background radiation
Environment; Radiation hazards
Radiation from cosmic sources; naturally occurring radioactive materials, including radon and fallout from nuclear weapons tests.
beta particle
Environment; Radiation hazards
High speed electrons, which are emitted from the nuclei of radioactive atoms during radioactive decay, as a result of the transformation of a neutron into a proton. They can be stopped by a thin ...
becquerel
Environment; Radiation hazards
A unit, in the International System of Units (SI), of measurement of activity equal to one decay per second.
bioassay
Environment; Radiation hazards
The determination of kinds, quantities, or concentrations, and, in some cases, the locations of radioactive material in the human body, whether by direct counting (in vivo) or by analysis and ...
biological half life
Environment; Radiation hazards
The time that is required by an organism to eliminate half the amount of a substance that has entered it.
bremstrahlung
Environment; Radiation hazards
X-rays produced when a charged particle loses energy in interactions with heavy nuclei when moving through matter.
