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Would exposure to something which is radioactive make you radioactive?
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∙ 15y ago
Not much.
There are various forms of radioactivity. A material can emit alpha particles, beta particles (high energy electrons), neutrons, gamma rays (high energy photos), or you can ingest it.
If you eat, breathe or inject a radioactive material, it will be inside you and you will become "radioactive" in that you will emit particles or radiation. This is how PET works - the doctor injects a short-lived isotope and tracks the positrons emitted by them with a detector, so can track, say, the uptake of glucose in your brain.
If you sit on a lump of radioactive material, the radiation will damage your skin and body
to an extent depending on the intensity and type of radiation. If an emitted particle
changes an atom in your body to an unstable isotope, this will later decay by emitting
a particle itself. In this sense you will have been made "radioactive". This is I believe very unlikely - the side effects of radiation damage would kill you long before you had become significantly radioactive just from contact. A particle is more likely to break chemical bonds
and create free radicals than to create a new isotope.
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Yes
