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Lead is most commonly used for protecting people from radioactive substances.
For example, if you go to the dentist and they give you an X-ray of your teeth, they will usually give you a lead bib to protect you from the radiation produced by the X-ray. However, carbon (graphite usually) can also be used to shield, but whereas a plate of lead may work it would take a brick of graphite.
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What element is used as a shield to protect people from radioactive sudstances?
Usually lead is used for shielding, however I believe Boron is used to in a sense "neutralize" radioactive material. I believe this was discussed in possible solutions for Fukashima
What element is used as a shield to protect people from radioactive?
Lead is most commonly used for this. An example is the lead jacket the put over you when you get an x-ray at the dentists'.
What element is used as a shield to protect people from radioactive subtances?
Lead is commonly used as a shield to protect people from radioactive substances. It is dense, so it effectively absorbs and blocks the radiation, helping to minimize exposure to harmful radiation._lead
What is the difference between an convention and an element?
An element is a pure material substance, a convention is a meeting of people.
How can thorium hurt people?
Thorium can be dangerous, especially when powders are inhaled, because is a radioactive element.
What element is used to as a shield to protect people from radioactice substances?
Lead
What element is used as a shield to protect people from radioactve substances?
Lead
What element is used as a shield to protect people from redioactivity?
The most used is lead.
Difference between a non-radioactive substance and a radioactive substance?
Radioactive elements are unstable and will decay into other elements in a decay chain. Non-radioactive elements are stable and won't commence into radioactive decay. Radioactive elements can be found from atomic number 84 onwards.
What elements are used as a shields to protect radioactive substances?
* Alpha radiation can be stopped by a sheet of card * Beta radiation can be stopped be a few inches of aluminium * Gamma radiation can be stopped by several inches of lead or many feet of concrete.
Who uses the periodic table?
Many people do to determine which element is in a substance ex: me, scientists
Why do home smoke detectors contain radioactive materials?
the bottom line is that when smoke gets into the detector, it's electrical current is interrupted, causing the alarm to sound (which im guessing you already knew) I'm not totally sure why the radioactive element (americium-241) has to be in there, but what I DO know (contrary to what the previous poster put) is that the alpha rays produced by the radioactive element are NOT strong enough to escape, and therfore pose NO harm whatsoever to people around it.
