Category: Radiation

When you open up a bottle of medication or vitamins, you'll have to take off a protective foil seal underneath the lid. You may have never thought about why it…

Craters and volcanic calderas, called "paterae", on Venus are named for notable, actual women. Indeed, all features on Venus are named for women, with only three exceptions. They are Maxwell…

Treating irradiated water Water can be filtered to remove different types of radiation, with the two recognised ways of treating contaminated water being reverse osmosis and ion exchange.15-Jun-2011 Does radiation…

In general, blades with more teeth yield a smoother cut, and blades with fewer teeth remove material faster. A 10" blade designed for ripping lumber, for example, usually has as…

Reduces costly downtime. When a forklift causes an injury, tips over, or material falls due to overloading, this causes costly downtime, reduced productivity, and lost goods. Requiring all operators to…

The alpha particle is slow, whereas the beta particle is small and moves fast. But the beta particles are stopped by a sheet of aluminium. Gamma radiation is from light…

SYCO is a room temperature ferromagnetic material which absorbs magnetic radiation, while carbon black is a readily available highly conductive material.22 May 2019 What materials can absorb radiation? Types of…

Both neutrino and antineutrino are two subatomic particles. However, the key difference between antineutrino and neutrino is that the neutrino is a particle whereas the antineutrino is an antiparticle. Moreover,…

CO2 molecules can vibrate in ways that simpler nitrogen and oxygen molecules cannot, which allows CO2 molecules to capture the IR photons. Does carbon dioxide absorb infrared light? Carbon dioxide…

The radiation levels offshore of Fukushima have dropped in the years since, but some of the reactors there are still leaking. And over the last decade, TEPCO has continued to…