• Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
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    Alpha is the weakest, usually stopping on the skin or other thin layer. Gamma goes right through a person. In college, we were warned more about beta emission because beta could enter the body by couldn’t leave in the same way that gamma could.

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      Alpha is generally considered the most dangurous, so saying it is the weakest is kinda doing an injustice. The penetration is the weakest, the radiation is the most harmful.

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        That reminds me of the myth related to the daddy long-legs, that it has the most potent venom of any spider but can’t break your skin.