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Title: Radioactive radiation could damage via a previously unnoticed mechanism
Post by: Marlin on Dec 28, 2021, 02:53
Radioactive radiation could damage biological tissue also via a previously unnoticed mechanism

https://www.mpg.de/18070336/radioactive-radiation-coulombic-decay?c=153905
Title: Re: Radioactive radiation could damage via a previously unnoticed mechanism
Post by: GLW on Dec 29, 2021, 01:44
radioactive radiation?!?!?!?!?!?


why do I feel like I'm in an old movie?!?!?!?


[youtube width=400 height=200]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oFYqWJpam8[/youtube]





Title: Re: Radioactive radiation could damage via a previously unnoticed mechanism
Post by: btkeele on Dec 30, 2021, 10:42
Yeah, the bigger threat is non-radioactive radiation damaging non-biological tissue... like a kleenex
Title: Re: Radioactive radiation could damage via a previously unnoticed mechanism
Post by: bsdnuke on Jan 08, 2022, 11:56
I think they are trying to explain free radical formation and the additional electrons from interactions are Compton interactions certainly. But "Compton explosions" and such language are not any less scientific than when I was reading in a radiation chemistry text talking about electron interactions as it slowed and created "spurs' and "blobs" (Spinks and Woods textbook descriptors). It's not totally terrible IMO just not very scientific.