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Ionizing in sentence

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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.
The biggest health risk occurs when lots of ionizing radiation hits us in a short time period, also known as an acute exposure.
Fortunately, acute exposures are rare, but we are exposed daily to lower levels of ionizing radiation from both natural and man-made sources.
Your body often repairs damage from small amounts ionizing radiation, and if it can't, the results of damage may not manifest for a decade or more.
One way scientists compare ionizing radiation exposure is a unit called the sievert.
For the remainder that is ionizing, our exposures are usually low, and choices like getting your home tested for radon and wearing sunscreen can help reduce the associated health risks.
And so, if we were to dump any of us on Mars right this minute, even given ample food, water, air and a suit, we are likely to experience very unpleasant health problems from the amount of ionizing radiation that bombards the surface of planets like Mars that have little or nonexistent atmosphere.
If you can get these electrons up to a higher energy, so about 1,000 times higher than this tube, the X-rays that those produce can actually deliver enough ionizing radiation to kill human cells.
These sand-sized particles emit ionizing radiation, capable of separating electrons from molecules and atoms.
Even though no amount of ionizing radiation is completely safe, the amount of radiation the body receives during a PET scan is actually quite low.
Malaysia is sharing with Sudan its considerable expertise in non-destructive testing (in which ionizing radiation is used to test the quality of a host of manufactured products, from oil and gas pipes to aircraft components).
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.
So, if ionizing radiation is a relatively weak carcinogen, why is nuclear power so scary?
Another factor that might mitigate radiation damage is a phenomenon called hormesis – a biphasic dose-response relationship in which something such as a toxic heavy metal or ionizing radiation that is harmful at moderate to high doses may actually produce adaptive beneficial effects at low doses.