Gamma radiation can cause serious problems to the body. If you come in contact with high levels of radiation it can cause serious illness and death. Possible symptoms include nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, headache, fever, dizziness and disorientation, weakness, fatigue, hair loss, bloody vomit and stools, infections, poor wound healing and low blood pressure.
Gamma rays are the most energetic form of radiation and has the ability to penetrate your body and destroy tissue. It is also a carcinogen and can cause the genetic information (DNA) inside the cells of your body to suffer a mutation. The chance of a mutation happening naturally is 1 in a million- the odds go down a lot more if one is exposed to gamma rays.
The problem is not that gamma radiation is harmful per se. Indeed, all radiation is harmful in high enough dosages or for long enough periods. The problem is that unlike alpha and beta radiation, which are particulate (helium atoms and electrons, respectively), gamma radiation is in the form of rays (photon rays, to be specific) and are such much more difficult to properly shield and contain.
Gamma radiation is very deeply penetrating and is ionizing. The result of this is that it breaks apart many different kinds of molecules. If it breaks DNA molecules, for example, this can cause problems. When this happens, cells try to repair themselves. If this fails, they often die, but sometimes they replicate themselves with bad genetic code, and this can cause tumors or cancer.
Gamma rays have the highest frequency and lowest wavelength out of all the other waves in the electromagnetic spectrum. As a consequence, they also have the highest amount of energy of all the other waves. The combination of high energy and small wavelength means that gamma rays can pass through skin and cause damage on a cellular level. When gamma rays pass through cells, they can cause them the mutate, which leads to cancer.
Gamma radiation is not necessarily more dangerous outside the skin. For most cases, the presence of skin does not matter, because gamma radiation penetrates skin easily.
It is more correct to say that alpha radiation is less dangerous outside the skin, because the skin, even a sheet of paper, or even a few inches of air, is enough to stop alpha radiation. As a result, the issue is that alpha radiation is more dangerous when ingested because it is closer to more sensitive cells than it would be outside the skin, but it does not make sense to claim that gamma radiation is more dangerous outside the skin.
They are the most dangerous of all forms of electromagnetic radiation, but they are only dangerous in sufficient amounts.
Because they collide with particles in your body and this changes the particle sequence and can cause mutations for example cancer.
No. Gamma rays are extremely dangerous to humans and can cause death.
Gamma rays are the most penetration rays because of its shortest wave length...
Radioactive radiation, such as X-rays and gamma rays, is dangerous and can harm, and even kill living things.
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Each gamma-ray photon carries more energy than an X-ray photon. So gamma rays are more penetrating than X-rays, and have a greater photoelectric effect. But you can still pack more energy into an X-ray beam, simply by generating more photons, i.e. operate a 'brighter' source.
Yes, of course.
alpha radiation is more dangerous than beta or gamma if ingested or inhaled because its power to ionize (or to disrupt atoms) is 20x than that of beta and gamma. but if the source is outside the body or at a distance gamma radiation is much dangerous because it could penetrate thick walls.
Externally, gamma radiation is dangerous because it can penetrate the body. Alpha is most dangerous if ingested.
Gamma rays, just like (visible) light rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation. Gamma rays have a much shorter wavelength (and thus more energy) than visible light, which is why they are much more dangerous to human beings (e.g. they may cause cancer).
An improved , more accurate type of X-ray , but more dangerous , as it can cause skin cancer .
gamma rays
Usually for killing cancerous tumors, as in radiotherapy. Sometimes also for medical imaging, as in a gamma camera. Generally, Gamma rays are dangerous to living tissue.
X-rays have lower energy, though they are both dangerous.
Gamma Rays
No. Gamma rays are extremely dangerous to humans and can cause death.
Gamma rays are the most penetration rays because of its shortest wave length...
Gamma Rays can pass straight through human tissue and are therefore highly dangerous. The only time you are likely to use Gamma rays is in scientific research.