what are 3 benefits of radioactivity??

Question

I'm doing an assignment on radio activity so i need to know 3 benefits can you help me with it?

Answer 1

Radioactive decay has been put to use in the technique of radioisotopic labeling, used to track the passage of a chemical substance through a complex system (such as a living organism). A sample of the substance is synthesized with a high concentration of unstable atoms. The presence of the substance in one or another part of the system is determined by detecting the locations of decay events.

On the premise that radioactive decay is truly random (rather than merely chaotic), it has been used in hardware random-number generators. Because the process is not thought to vary significantly in mechanism over time, it is also a valuable tool in estimating the absolute ages of certain materials. For geological materials, the radioisotopes and certain of their decay products become trapped when a rock solidifies, and can then later be used (subject to many well-known qualifications) to estimate the date of the solidification. These include checking the results of several simultaneous processes and their products against each other, within the same sample.
Radiation therapy (or radiotherapy) is the medical use of ionizing radiation as part of cancer treatment to control malignant cells (not to be confused with radiology, the use of radiation in medical imaging and diagnosis). Radiotherapy may be used for curative or adjuvant cancer treatment. It is used as palliative treatment (where cure is not possible and the aim is for local disease control or symptomatic relief) or as therapeutic treatment (where the therapy has survival benefit but is not curative). Total body irradiation (TBI) is a radiotherapy technique used to prepare the body to receive a bone marrow transplant. Radiotherapy has a few applications in non-malignant conditions, such as the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, severe thyroid eye disease, pterygium, prevention of keloid scar growth, and prevention of heterotopic ossification. The use of radiotherapy in non-malignant conditions is limited partly by worries about the risk of radiation-induced cancers.
Radiometric dating (often called radioactive dating) is a technique used to date materials, based on a comparison between the observed abundance of particular naturally occurring radioactive isotopes and their known decay rates.[1] It is the principal source of information about the absolute age of rocks and other geological features, including the age of the Earth itself. Among the best-known techniques are potassium-argon dating and uranium-lead dating. By allowing the establishment of geological timescales, it provides a significant source of information about the dates of fossils and the deduced rates of evolutionary change. Radiometric dating is also used to date archaeological remains and ancient artifacts, the best known technique in this field being radiocarbon dating.

Answer 2

This Site Might Help You.

RE:
what are 3 benefits of radioactivity??
I'm doing an assignment on radio activity so i need to know 3 benefits can you help me with it?

Answer 3

I don't recommend my path. I earn a living, paying a mortgage, and when I'm not working I'm trying to recover from working. So in my spare time I compensate for it by flying a hang glider, which, although a great and aweseome sensation, is taking a risk. Without risk-taking, I would not feel very alive. My path is a twisted trail through the human condition. I am too skeptical to think myself into enlightenment, and in any event, others' belief systems don't interest me that much. The good news is that I just took a flight today off 2,350' Monument Peak in textured air and it was awesome. The purest form of flying and it was all over too soon. So, hope you find a path that floats your boat. I think all paths are fleeting, but that's just me.

Answer 4

For the best answers, search on this site https://shorturl.im/avEQB

1. Empowerment -- when you're free from religion, you're empowered to make this life better instead of obsessing about the next. 2. Simplicity -- when you see the world in terms of simple empiricism, things that are otherwise mysterious or complex (God works in mysterious ways) are replaced with pure simplicity (**** happens). 3. You can drink on almost every question here!