Electromagnetic Radiation Cell Phones

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A cell phone is a cellular device that can receive and make calls through radio link while being in any part of the world, as long as there is cellular network.
• EME is electromagnetic energy also known as electromagnetic radiation (EMR) that we are surrounded by every day, emitted from natural sources like the sun, earth and the ionosphere. It is also emitted from unnatural sources like mobile phone base stations, broadcast towers, radar equipment, remote controls, electrical and electronic equipment. Electromagnetic radiation travels in waves. There are many types of electromagnetic waves which differ in the wavelength. These electromagnetic radiations form the electromagnetic spectrum. Electromagnetic spectrum is the range of all the possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. Frequency is the number of waves travelling per second. Electromagnetic waves are produced by the movement of electrically charged particles (ions), which are atoms that gain or lose particles. These waves travel through air, empty space and other substances. This radiation that is given of radioactive materials such as x-ray machines, nuclear reactions and ultraviolet rays are all examples of ionizing radiation. This energy kicks out electrons from molecules with which they interact, thus creating ions. Radiofrequency radiation is at the low end of the electromagnetic spectrum, this energy is a type of non-ionizing radiation. Some of the ultraviolet rays that are emitted from the sun are considered as ionizing radiation, ultraviolet rays can harm humans. Ultraviolet rays are important to humans for gaining vitamin D in the body, but too much of it can cause sun burns and in a lot of cases, skin cancer. So the skin tissue is damaged, so the DNA...

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...w that cell phones do not cause cancer. Scientists need to make further investigations if cell phones really are dangerous. In most cancer and health care websites, they prevent too much use of cell phones for example, the Cancer Research UK and the World Health Organisation.
Newspaper and magazine articles can be bias but the newspapers and magazine articles that were researched and were given above were not very biased information because most of them were health care websites.
The internet was used to give information on topics like EMR, RF energy, EMS and more. The websites that I used to find out general information from the internet was from organisations and reliable websites. The internet was also used to give information from studies that were taken place, however, the studies were taken from cancer and research related websites (e.g., Cancer Research UK).

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