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    Gamma Ray (Begonia)

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    Gamma rays have the smallest wavelengths and highest energy of any wave in the electromagnetic spectrum. They were discovered in 1900 by Paul Villard while studying radiation from radium. Gamma rays are used to sterilize medical equipment and food, as tracers in medicine, to kill cancer cells, and in gamma ray astronomy. However, gamma rays can be harmful by causing cancer, damaging DNA as they penetrate skin, and destroying living cells in animals while also damaging growth, reproduction, and causing mutations in various organisms. They also negatively impact plants and the environment by accelerating fruit softening and depleting the ozone layer.

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    Gamma Ray (Begonia)

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    Gamma rays have the smallest wavelengths and highest energy of any wave in the electromagnetic spectrum. They were discovered in 1900 by Paul Villard while studying radiation from radium. Gamma rays are used to sterilize medical equipment and food, as tracers in medicine, to kill cancer cells, and in gamma ray astronomy. However, gamma rays can be harmful by causing cancer, damaging DNA as they penetrate skin, and destroying living cells in animals while also damaging growth, reproduction, and causing mutations in various organisms. They also negatively impact plants and the environment by accelerating fruit softening and depleting the ozone layer.

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    Gamma rays have the smallest wavelengths and highest energy of any wave in the electromagnetic spectrum. They were discovered in 1900 by Paul Villard while studying radiation from radium. Gamma rays are used to sterilize medical equipment and food, as tracers in medicine, to kill cancer cells, and in gamma ray astronomy. However, gamma rays can be harmful by causing cancer, damaging DNA as they penetrate skin, and destroying living cells in animals while also damaging growth, reproduction, and causing mutations in various organisms. They also negatively impact plants and the environment by accelerating fruit softening and depleting the ozone layer.

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    Gamma Ray (Begonia)

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    Karen Manggao
    Gamma rays have the smallest wavelengths and highest energy of any wave in the electromagnetic spectrum. They were discovered in 1900 by Paul Villard while studying radiation from radium. Gamma rays are used to sterilize medical equipment and food, as tracers in medicine, to kill cancer cells, and in gamma ray astronomy. However, gamma rays can be harmful by causing cancer, damaging DNA as they penetrate skin, and destroying living cells in animals while also damaging growth, reproduction, and causing mutations in various organisms. They also negatively impact plants and the environment by accelerating fruit softening and depleting the ozone layer.

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    Gamma Ray

    Uses and Application


    Harmful effects
    Gamma rays have the smallest
    wavelengths and the most energy

    What is of any wave in the electromagnetic


    spectrum.

    Gamma Paul Villard, a French chemist and


    Ray? physicist, discovered gamma
    radiation in 1900, while studying
    radiation emitted from radium
    Uses and
    Application
    Sterilize Medical
    Equipment
    Sterilize Food
    Tracers in
    Medicine
    Kill Cancer
    Cells
    Gamma Ray
    Astronomy
    Harmful
    Effects of
    Gamma Ray
    Harmful effects on Humans
    •It causes cancer
    •It can penetrate skin. As is pass
    through skin gamma ray causes
    ionizing that damages DNA and
    tissue
    Harmful effects on Animals
    • It can destroy living cells, produce gene
    mutations, and cancer.
    • It damages growth and reproduction in
    various organisms.
    • Acute radiation poisoning.
    Harmful effects on Plants
    • stimulating effect on growth when seeds or seedlings
    are exposed to light doses of ionizing radiation.
    • Gamma-rays accelerate the softening of fruits, causing
    the breakdown of middle lamella in cell wall. They also
    influence the plastid development and function, such as
    starch-sugar interconversion.
    Harmful effects on the environment

    • Gamma ray would deplete the ozone layer


    in the upper atmosphere. Allowing harmful
    UV radiation to reach the ground

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