Sentences with phrase «created by ionizing radiation»

Teeth and nails are good for measuring radiation because they pick up free radicals (atoms, or ions, with unpaired electrons) created by ionizing radiation and can retain them for long periods of time, says Harold Swartz, a Dartmouth Medical School professor of radiation oncology and director of the Dartmouth Biodosimetry Center for Medical Countermeasures against Radiation.

Not exact matches

The SWAP instrument tracked interstellar pickup ions — ions created as the materials turns ionized and is «picked up» by solar wind — and speculated that they could actually be the seeds of highly energetic particles dubbed as anomalous cosmic rays, which can be a potential radiation threat to astronauts.

Radiation exposure is just one cause of this scrambling (Shirley and others 1992, Gorbunova and Levy 1999) and at least 3,000 different mutant plant varieties created by intentional exposure to ionizing radiation are part of the existing food supply (IAEA 2008).

First, minute quantities of radiation can be detected, because radiation is unlike anything else (million - electron - volt particles crashing through ordinary matter that is ionized by a few electron - volts, slowing down while creating tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of ionization sites).