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Chemistry 1010
12-10-2015
Radiation
Chemistry 1010 has been a great learning experience for me. I have learned
things and grasped concepts that I thought I could never understand. There is one
subject that has really captured my attention, and its a subject that we really didnt
cover. I am intrigued by radiation.
Radiation is energy that moves in the form of waves or particles. [1] These
can be very dangerous, can cause birth defects and can be deadly. If we look at the
Chernobyl incident in 1986, there was an explosion and fire that released large
quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere that once settled, made the
area uninhabitable. The radioactive particles spread over much of the western USSR
and Europe.
initiated primarily by the tsunami of the Thoku earthquake in March of 2011. Those
radioactive particles were released into the air and the water. In this case, people
and fish were poisoned by the radioactive particles. Now that we have a brief
understanding of the importance of my topic, lets move on to my thoughts.