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it depends. if it was a lot of radiation, it could burn your skin.

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Radiation comes in multiple types from multiple sources. In fact, skin is our body's primary defense against the forms that we normally encounter every day from a variety of sources, including the sun, electronic devices, the earth itself, etc... If a person is exposed to certain kinds, in high enough doses, or for prolonged periods, it causes burns. A common example is a simple sunburn. In a less common example, this can cause severe burns, blisters and complete disintegration of the skin itself, not to mention the tissue underneath. A larger danger of widespread radiation exposure is to the environment itself, especially food and water, as this bypasses our skin, essentially cooking us from the inside out. This leads to a variety of medical problems including cancer and birth defects.

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