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प्रश्न
Why should a radioactive substance not be touched by hands?
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उत्तर
Radioactive substance should not be touched by hands because these radiations are harmful; when radiation falls on the human body, they kill the human living tissues and cause radiation burns.
संबंधित प्रश्न
Name the radiations which are absorbed by greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere.
How can they be made to leave the metal surface? (State any two ways)
In a cathode ray tube state:
(i) the purpose of covering cathode by thorium and carbon.
(ii) the purpose of the fluorescent screen.
(iii) how is it possible to increase the rate of emission of electrons.
A radioactive source emits three types of radiations. Name them.
(i) Name the radiations which are charged.
(ii) Name the radiations which are most penetrating.
(iii) Name the radiations which travel with the speed of light.
(iv) Name the radiations which have the largest mass.
How is a cathode ray beam affected while passing through a magnetic field?
From α, β and γ-rays, name the one which is not affected by electric or magnetic field?
The half-life of a radioactive nuclide is 100 hours. The fraction of original activity that will remain after 150 hours would be ______.
The activity of a certain radionuclide decreases to 15 percent of its original value in 10 days. What is its half life?
[ln (0.15) = -1.9]
Assertion (A): Hydrogen atom consists of only one electron but its emission spectrum has may lines.
Reason (R): Only Lyman series is found in the absorption spectrum of hydrogen atom whereas in the emission spectrum, all the series are found.
