Beta is nothing but electrons. Its mass is very meagre. Its speed is higher. With all these beta can easily penetrate through the paper.
Where as the alpha is helium nucleus. Its mass is very high and so its speed is very low. Because of these, alpha cannot pass through the paper.
Short Answer:
Gamma rays go through most light materials, such as building materials and are effectively diminished by heavier materials such as lead. Paper and plastic wrappings do not even stop 1% of gamma radiation. What does stop depends on the energy of the gamma ray, but the amount of radiation can often be cut in half by one centimeter thickness of a heavy metal.
Specific Examples:
To a rough approximation, the mass density of the material determines how well it blocks gamma rays, not just the thickness. Lead has a density over 11 times greater than water, so one inch thickness of lead should be worth 11 inches for shielding gamma rays. In the table below, you can see lead actually does even better. The thickness necessary to reduce gamma radiation by half is listed with the density of the material in parentheses.
lead 1.0 cm (11.3 g/cm^3
steel 2.5 cm (7.86 g/cm^3
concrete 6 cm (3.33 g/cm^3
soil 9 cm (1.99 g/cm^3
water 18 cm (1 g/cm^3)
wood 302 cm (0.56 g/cm^3)
air 15000 cm (0.0012 g/cm^3)
Gamma rays can have any energy, so these numbers not equally good for all gamma rays, but work for the sort of radiation humans might encounter due to radioactivity on Earth.
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Beta Radiation can travel through paper. Alpha cannot travel through paper. Gamma Radiation can travel through paper Easily.
Beta particles (which are electrons).
Because the Particles are too small to fit through the filter paper. Hope this helps!
Use a piece of filter paper !... The water will pass through the filter paper - but the soil particles will not.
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Filtration is done by a filter paper, while ultrafiltration is done by a semipermeable membrane. Solute particles that are 1-200nm in diameter can pass through filter paper, but cannot penetrate the semipermeable membrane. Only particles with a diameter less than 1nm can pass through the semipermeable membrane.
Paper doesn't conduct electricity at all, so no.
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Alpha. Beta particles are blocked by a few mm of aluminum and gamma by a few cm of lead. Alpha. Beta particles are blocked by a few mm of aluminum and gamma by a few cm of lead.
Both Beta and alpha particles can be blocked by a block of lead. Alpha particles can even be blocked by a sheet of paper, and beta particles can be blocked by a thin aluminium plate.
Filtration
Yes
Because the Particles are too small to fit through the filter paper. Hope this helps!
Use a piece of filter paper !... The water will pass through the filter paper - but the soil particles will not.
It depends. Radioactive Waste emitting Alpha particles could be stored in drums within a secure area, since Alpha particles can be stopped by a sheet of paper. Radioactive Waste emitting Beta particles can also be stored in drums within a secure area, since Beta particles can be stopped by a sheet of tin. Radioactive Waste particles emitting Gamma rays require many feet of dense lead in order to stop the radiation. These wastes are generally stored within secure areas underground, or remote areas away from highly populated areas.
The alpha particles are too large to fit through the gaps between the particles of the paper.
chromatography
Beta particles are not stopped by a paper sheet.
contaminate