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What Are The Different Applications Of Radioactivity?

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    Xrays, targeted attack of cancer cells, scanning luggage for security, as injection used to trace vessels in your body ie Liver Scan, treatment of thyroid gland, Neutron Bombs & other types of nuclear weapons (that's Nukear if you are a Republican), tracking, ...
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    Eyenzensky  

    answered 11 months ago

    Radioisotopes have found extensive use in diagnosis and therapy, and this has given rise to a rapidly growing field called nuclear medicine. These radioactive isotopes have proven particularly effective as tracers in certain diagnostic procedures. As radioisotopes are identical chemically with stable isotopes of the same element, they can take the place of the latter in physiological processes. Moreover, because of their radioactivity, they can be readily traced even in minute quantity with such
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