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What makes radiation?

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No idea what this question is asking. There are all kinds of "radiation." There is radioactive, heat, magnetic, radio, light, and so on radiation. Radiation simply means something (e.g., beta particles or photons) is radiating (thus the term) from some source (e.g., radioactive material or flashlight).

Photons (e.g., light and radio) are attracted to mass energy sources. Thus we have so-called gravity lenses where light is bent in the presence of a large mass source like a neutron star. Beta particles are attracted to positively charged sources because beta particles are nothing more of less than highly energized electrons, which carry negative charges.

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It's not that the radiation is made of...

But the radiations may contain any one or more of the following:

Alpha(He atom), Beta, electron, fission fragments, etc are particles and

Gamma, X-ray, Photons, etc. are energy quanta...

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different types of ionizing radiation are made from different things:

  • x-rays, gamma rays - high energy photons
  • beta rays - high energy electrons or positrons
  • alpha rays - fully ionized helium nuclei
  • neutron radiation - neutrons
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Alpha radiation is composed or particles made of 2 neutrons and 2 protons, which is essentially a helium-4 nucleus.

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an accelerating electric charge.

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