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Which radioactive element is used in chemotherapy?
Radium is used. Madam Marie curie discovered that radium destroyed diseased cells in the body and tackled certain types of cancer
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What is chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy is the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease or mental illness.
Sometimes the medical establishment fights cancer with a cancer causing substance: radiation. This has the...
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Is carbon radioactive or non-radioactive?
It depends on the isotope, of which carbon has three that occur naturally.
Carbon-12 (about 99%) and carbon-13 (about 1%) are not radioactive; carbon-14 (trace amounts, maybe one part per...
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Why are radioactive elements called 'radioactive'?
Radioactive means unstable, so any element that has an unstable nucleus is radioactive. This is especially true of element's isotopes.
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Is a radioactive standard a radioactive source?
Yes. A radioactive standard is a configuration of radioactive material constructed in a precise way, allowing the standard to be used as a reference when measuring other radiation sources. Standards...