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•What’s commonly called ‘radiation’ is actually a special type: ionizing radiation
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When a material is radioactive, it emits energy either as particles or electromagnetic waves.
There are four types of ionizing radiation: alpha, beta, gamma, and neutron radiation.
For many of the sources you encounter in everyday life, the amount of radiation is so low that you don’t need to worry about it.
In 1899 , Ernest Rutherford classified three types of radiation: alpha, beta, and gamma.
Gamma rays are the third class of radiation, and a type of electromagnetic wave.
Alpha radiation is often considered to be the least harmful of the radiation types.
Neutron radiation is a fourth type of ionizing radiation, but with neutron radiation a neutron is ejected from a radioactive nucleus.
You might have a radiation detector right in your pocket.
It's possible to use a smartphone to detect gamma rays (and x-rays) It's just like that Geiger counter in a watch that James Bond used in the movie Thunderball .
The most common tool for this is a photomultiplier tube.
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