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No, the placenta (afterbirth) is not radioactive. It is medical waste and potentially infectious to humans if not contained and properly destroyed.
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In some cultures, women believe that it is healthy and natural to cook and eat their placenta, a practice known as placentophagy. In China and Hong Kong, placentas are used in health products and medicine. In other cultures it is believed that interaction with the disposed placenta can positively affect the parents' future fertility (Japan, Transylvania). The Nigerian Ibo Tribe view the placenta as the dead twin of the new-born baby, and conduct full funeral rites for it.
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Is radioactive waste a pure substance or a mixture?
Radioactive waste is nearly always a mixture but it is possible to be a pure substance.
What type of hazardous waste gives off radiation?
Radioactive
What is the organ formed by the mother's body to nourish the baby and excrete waste products?
The placenta.
What was producing blood for fetuses?
The placenta. The placenta is a organ in the uterus, that in addition to privading nutirents, is also providing blood for the baby. it also puts the baby's waste into the mother, for her own disposal.
Why can't humans lay eggs?
Humans are placental mammals, meaning that they develop with the embryo attached to a placenta that allows it to exchange waste and nutrients with the mother. The placenta would not be able to function inside an egg.
How nutrients oxygen and waste are exchanged between the fetus and the mother?
how nutrients,oxygen and waste are exchange between the fetus and the mother
How radioactive waste is disposed?
Most radioactive waste is sealed in special containers, and buried underground. Medical waste that may be radioactive is taken to landfills.
Where does the embryo passes it waste?
placenta
What has the author Robert E Berlin written?
Robert E. Berlin has written: 'Radioactive waste management' -- subject(s): Radioactive waste disposal, Radioactive waste sites
What is exchanged through the placenta?
Nutrients and Waste
Where is most high-level radioactive waste put?
radioactive waste go somewhere probally in a labratory
What kind of energy produces radioactive waste?
Nuclear Energy produces radioactive waste because if there isnt any sign of nuclear waste/energy in the sullotion/object then it wouldnt be counted as 'Radioactive'.
Is radioactive waste a pure substance or a mixture?
Radioactive waste is nearly always a mixture but it is possible to be a pure substance.
Why is waste from nuclear power stations a problem?
The waste is radioactive and therefore ionising. It can cause cancer and "radioactive poisoning"
Does fusion produce radioactive waste?
No. The products of nuclear fusion are not radioactive.
What type of reaction produces the most dangerous radioactive waste?
What type of reaction produces the most dangerous radioactive waste?
What is placenta and what is its function?
For nine months the placenta feeds and nourishes the fetus while also disposing of toxic waste.
