SciShow: The Only Radiation Units You Need to Know

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Content of the Lesson: In order to have a meaningful conversation about the dangers of radiation exposure, it’s important to be clear about just how much radiation we are dealing with. Unfortunately, the units we use are kind of a mess… but SciShow is here with the only two you need to know. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/medical-radiation-patient-doses/patient-dose-information-guidance https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/air_travel.html https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/radiation-and-health/nuclear-radiation-and-health-effects.aspx https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11769138 http://www.radioactivity.eu.com/site/pages/Activity_Doses.htm http://www.xrayrisk.com/calculator/calculator.php http://www.icrp.org/publication.asp?id=ICRP%20Publication%20103 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK230653/ http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/ev.html https://www.rsc.org/images/essay3_tcm18-17765.pdf Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfa_beta_gamma_radiation_penetration.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gamma_Decay.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alpha_Decay.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beta-minus_Decay.svg https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/ionizing_radiation.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NuclearReaction.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Antoine-Henri_Becquerel.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Curie_c1920.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Radioactive_decay_of_atomic_nucleus_(PSF).png


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