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Ionization radiation vs "ordinary ionization/electrical breakdown"
Hi, I hope I get understood correctly, my question is seemingly simple:
Why is ionization radiation( energetic rays like gamma rays) dangerous and vastly different than say any common everyday ionization from a normal electrical breakdown or electric discharges like finger tip discharge to a van de graaf , or corona discharge/ glow discharge? in both cases you have a a removal of electrons from atoms...
Despite this, all I find about the reason of the danger is that ionization radiation removes electrons from atoms. On the other hand you got electrons removed from atoms in all ordinary electrical discharges so what is the difference? I have searched and read everywhere w/o results.
Thanks
Hi, I hope I get understood correctly, my question is seemingly simple:
Why is ionization radiation( energetic rays like gamma rays) dangerous and vastly different than say any common everyday ionization from a normal electrical breakdown or electric discharges like finger tip discharge to a van de graaf , or corona discharge/ glow discharge? in both cases you have a a removal of electrons from atoms...
Despite this, all I find about the reason of the danger is that ionization radiation removes electrons from atoms. On the other hand you got electrons removed from atoms in all ordinary electrical discharges so what is the difference? I have searched and read everywhere w/o results.
Thanks
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