The chief hazard of radiation damage to living cells is
A) due to heating.
B) due to ionization.
C) due to the creation of chemical impurities.
D) the creation of new isotopes within the body.
E) the creation of radioactive material within the body.
B
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A) Hubble's law. B) Leavitt's law. C) the inverse square law for light. D) Kepler's third law.
When a proton passes through matter, it is possible for it to interact with the matter in such a way that an electron and a positron are produced; this interaction is referred to as
A) the photoelectric effect. B) the Compton effect. C) the de Broglie effect. D) pair production. E) none of the given answers