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'Gamma is very penetrating, needs many centimetres of lead or many metres of concrete to absorb most of it.'

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Goodman. N, 'Essentials: OCR Twenty First Century GCSE Physics Revision Guide,' Page 28, Letts and Lonsdale (2008)

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