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This may be a dumb question:
What is it about radioactivity that caused them to name it "radioactive"?
All I was taught was that radioactivity is an emission of gamma particles, beta particles, or alpha particles. I don't remember anything about radio wavelength photons.
What is it about radioactivity that caused them to name it "radioactive"?
All I was taught was that radioactivity is an emission of gamma particles, beta particles, or alpha particles. I don't remember anything about radio wavelength photons.