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Radon
... Mr. Dorn discovered this element around 1898. At first radon was not called radon, it was called niton. ... It was only called radon up until about 1923. ...
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Uranium
... Called radioactive decay, the process results in the emission of alpha or beta particles ... Most of the by-products are radioactive solids but one, radon is a ...
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Lung Cancer
... This is called mixed small/large cell carcinoma. ... Radon is a radioactive gas produced by the natural breakdown of uranium that cannot be seen, tasted or smelled ...
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Periodic Table
... combine with other elements to form compounds, the noble gasses are called inert. The family of noble gasses is helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon. ...
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Australia's Uranium Mining
... cases uranium has been removed from low-grade ore by a process called heap leaching. ... ore present a hazard because of the risk of release of dust, radon gas and ...
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Lung Cancer 2
... other organs. This occurrence is called metastasis. Metastasis ... is stopped. Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer. It ...
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Nuclear Power
... The fuel used to today in nuclear reactors is called Uranium. ... Living on the Earth: 200 millirems (mrems) We are living in a sea of radon. ...
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Disease
... into tubes called bronchi, which divide into smaller branches called bronchioles. ... These include certain cancer-causing agents in the workplace, radon gas, and ...
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what if there was not any lung cancer
... and women die in one year in America from a single form of cancer, called lung cancer ... limit the risk of this disease is to test the home for high radon levels. ...
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Air Pollution
... and installing special pipes and pumps can also prevent radon from going ... in Japan, more than 160 countries adopted a Kyoto protocol which called for reduction ...
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Two Deadly Natural Disasters: Earthquakes vs. Hurricanes
... Other instruments can measure changes in the levels of radon gas, electrical ... Earthquakes also produce monstrous waves called tsunamis (tidal waves) of massive ...
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Disposal of Nuclear Waste
... These tailings release radon into the environment. ... these reports, the president approved three sites for intensive scientific study called site characterization ...
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heart disease
... density lipoproteins (LDL), and beta lipoproteins are also called very low ... polonium, nicotine, arsenious oxide, benzopyrene, and levels of radon and molybdenum ...
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secondhand smoking
... An identical law was passed in New York called the Smoke-Free Act that banned ... was declared a Class A carcinogen in 1992 along with asbestos, radon and benzene. ...
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Radium
... They discovered it by crystallizing an ore called Pitchblende, which is an Uranium ore. ... As you can see by that, radium turns into Radon, then Polonium, and ...
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Gamma Ray Penetration Of Lead
... Alpha particles emitted a radioactive gas called thoron. ... rocks can cause higher levels at surface, especially if they release radioactive radon gas, which ...
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Nuclear Power in Ontario
... General Electric to build Canada's first nuclear power plant called NPD for ... contain some of the most powerful carcinogens known: radium, radon gas, polonium ...
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Lung Cancer
... Treatment with drugs to kill cancer cells is called chemotherapy. ... cause of lung cancer, some other carcinogens linked to lung cancer include radon and asbestos ...
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smoking
... Smoke (ETS) is every bit as potent as arsenic, asbestos, and radon in its ... A company called Celanese has created a chemical that, when injected in the human body ...
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