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Radiation dosages
Various types of radiation including ionizing radiation may cause harm to people, researchers, and students under different situations.

This problem set is designed to help you calculate how much radiation and of what type you may be exposed to and how much damage it might cause.

The idea is forewarned is forearmed so that should you find yourself performing research requiring the use of radiation you will use proper and effective precaution.

Def. any "illness produced by ionizing radiation with symptoms ranging from nausea through to death" is called radiation sickness.

Def. an "addition of a small measured amount of a substance to something" is called a dosage.

Def. a "quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time" is called a dose.