Ionizing in example sentence

Relying on the Japanese research, the World Health Organization estimates that over the entire lifetime of the population of several hundred thousand people exposed to ionizing radiation from Chernobyl, as many as 4,000 might die prematurely from cancer caused by the leaked radiation.

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Electric fields are not ionizing radiation, like X-rays or proton beams, that bombard tissue to disrupt DNA.

This is known as ionizing radiation because an atom that has lost or gained electrons is called an ion.

All nuclear radiation is ionizing, while only the highest energy electromagnetic radiation is.

In comparison, cell phones and microwaves operate at the lower end of the spectrum, so there is no risk of ionizing radiation from their use.

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