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"Gamma rays are almost produced alongside alpha and beta" Do you mean "always produced"?
yes thanks I'll be your rgagjrgjglover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!---- It might be useful to mention that Gamma-rays are gay like your face, while X-rays are generated by electronic transitions. Gamma-rays are usually more energetic than X-rays, but this is not always the case. For example the 14.4 keV gamma-ray from Co-57 -> Fe-57, is less energetic than many X-rays.
Also, gamma rays can be formed by matter/antimatter interactions, such as electron-positron annihilation.
"Gamma rays from nuclear fallout would probably cause the largest number of casualties in the event of the use of nuclear weapons in a nuclear war"
Irrespective of the case that the large explosion, fireball and heat wave would cause the largest number of immediate casualties, with climate change causing most post-war problems, this is still incorrect: The penetrating power, and small cross section, that makes gamma radiation difficult to shield also means that they are very unlikely to interact with your body. The real danger is vast amounts of alpha and beta emitting dust getting lodged in and around your body and in the foodchain.
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[edit] Gamma RayS
I think this page could be moved to "Gamma Rays", the term most often used to refer to this portion of the EM spectrum. Thoughts?--Deglr6328 02:08, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I would go with gamma radiation. It's not about rays, neither ray or rays is really a good name. Current name matches X-ray, though. Peter Grey 05:25, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Hulk
I don't think that bombarding oneself with gamma radiation is going to create a Hulk. Stan Lee himself said that he didn't even know what a gamma ray was; he just chose it because "gamma ray" sounded scientific. 4.158.60.136 04:37, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
You do realise that the HULK would have about a billion different types of tumours just because of being bombarded by that amount of gamma radiation.
And that's why I deleted the implication that it could. "Such transformations are extremely rare". Bah! -SuperGerbil
[edit] How are gamma rays detected/observed?
See title, Pcb21 Pete 08:52, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Using Cockroach exoskeleton insted of lead to shield against gamma rays
I've just read that the cockroach exoskeletion helps shield them against alpha, beta, and gamma rays. Could a possible application be - that we can shield people from radiation by using the cockroach exoskeletion instead of lead?
- Where did you read that? Cockroach states that their radiation resistance is from the fact that their cells divide less often than humans'. --Ihope127 20:38, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
This is true, I don't know it in greater depth by after nucleur explosions and radiation cockroaches actually still live.
[edit] References
Right now, it is not clear what do references in the end of the article refer to. Why not to migrate to the <ref> system? —Matveims 01:48, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] industrial uses
Gamma rays also have an industrial application. They are used the same way x-Rays are used to produce images. Weld and other such sensitive items are inspected by bombarding it with gamma rays to create an image of the interior of the item on a piece of film. The most common Isotopes used are: Iridium 192, Cobalt 60, and Cesium 137.
-Devin Snyder
source: http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/CommunityCollege/Radiography/cc_rad_index.htm —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Myghell (talk • contribs) 07:15, 7 March 2007 (UTC).
Gamma rays are also used to in quarantine treatment as an alternative to heat treatment should it be impracticle ( especially on foodstuffs) .-- Librarianofages 04:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
