Cell Phones and Ionizing Radiation

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A cell phone is a device that enables us to communicate with our friends and families. It enables us to receive radio links that is moving around a wide environment area. Nowadays there are millions of users all over the world who uses the phone. The first to invent phone was Martin Cooper in 1970’s. Nowadays phones are so advanced that it is used in many different ways. People use for downloading apps, playing games, texting people, calling friends etc. When we talk over the phone many types of radiation are given out like microwave radio waves etc.

There are two main types of radiation, ionizing and non-ionizing. The ionizing radiation is the energy is carried out by several types of particle rays (electromagnetic radiation), which is given off by the radioactive material, X-ray machines, and nuclear reaction. These energy bump electrons out of the molecules with which they interact, therefore creating ions.

The non- ionizing radiation, such as the release by a laser, us different because it does not create ions when it interacts with matter but evaporates energy generally form of heat.

The three main types of ionizing radiation are alpha particles, beta particles and gamma rays.

An alpha ray particle consists of two protons and two neutrons and it is identical to the nucleus of helium atom. An alpha particle has a shortage range (several centimeters) in air and cannot overrun the outer layer of skin.

The other one is beta particles that can be either be negative(negatron) or positive (positron).Negatrons are identical to electrons and originate in the nucleus of an atom that undergoes radioactive decay by changing a neutron into a proton. A positron is released from an atom that decays by changing a proton into a n...

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I have used org or edu for most of my searches because those websites are reliable and the information on it cannot be changed or edited. Whereas if I had used wiki or com my answers would not have been reliable because answers on those websites can be edited or changed. After doing this research I have found out how much harm can cell phones do to us and how does it affect us in our daily lives. Nowadays, even small children are able to use the phones; they are able to operate it without being taught. But it is not taken from them it can cause them a great effect. Also the cell phones give out radiations when they are in use and that affects us in many ways. I now know how the cell phones work and what type of radiation it gives out.

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