What are the effects of radioactive elements?

Answer 1

Radioactive isotopes can cause burns , mutations ,cancer and death .

Answer 2

On the body? High energy radiation, such as the EM waves beyond and including UV, i.e. X-ray, gamma. Have the adverse effect of damaging human DNA, which over time causes mutations, resulting in cancer or organ failure. Short exposure to large doses of radiation damages the tissue that has been exposed to it, the risk of mutation is lower due to the short exposure time, but tissue may be severely damaged by the radiation leading to internal bleeding. There could also be severe and permanent scars to where the radiation was close to. Also, it could lead to death of course.

Answer 3

Radioactivity Effects:

*Is a toxic because it forms ions when it reacts with biological molecules. These ions can form free radicals, which damage proteins, membranes, and nucleic acids.

*Can damage DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) by destroying individual bases (particularly thymine), by breaking single strands, by breaking double strands, by cross-linking different DNA strands, and by cross-linking DNA and proteins. Damage to DNA can lead to cancers, , birth defects and even death.

Answer 4

Contamination or poisoning?

For contamination it depends on the contaminant.

• alpha emitters - not much. (most effects are long term)
• beta emitters - beta burns, if contamination is significant similar to bad sunburn, if contamination is local burn limited to exposed area.
• gamma emitters - low dosage none, medium dosage mild radiation sickness (usually limited to nausea), high dosage radiation poisoning.

For poisoning the short term effects are mostly nausea, blood chemistry changes, and hair loss. If severe poisoning you will likely recover from these on your own after a couple weeks, enter the "latent" period of a couple more weeks, then your blood cell counts collapse and anemia sets in.

Answer 5

harmfull effects of radiation on the body are cancer, and mutations in the later generations.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The first and immediate danger of radioactivity is radiation sickness. Radiation sickness can cause severe illness and death. The second danger is cancer from exposure to radiation.

Answer 8

Radioactive isotopes can cause burns , mutations ,cancer and death .