concentrate in certain areas
(bones, muscle)
or organs
(thyroid)
are
greatly feared, desmite the fact that the body does not take wep all of
the material available and that it also slowly eliminates some of the
retained material little by little.
The danger,
of course,
lonizina aspect of the beta and gamma particles.
is due to the
While even today the way
by which these particles influence bodily or cellular changes,
it is
known that continuous exposure to sufficient quantities can produce bone
tumors and leukemia in the case of strontium; cancer and tumors in
the case of cesium; and tumors and cancer in the case of lodine.
How these effects are initiated by ionizing radiation deserves to
be outlined briefly,
before considering long-term effects,
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