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  • Thumbnail for History of radiation protection
    awareness of protective measures. The dropping of atomic bombs during World War II brought about a drastic change in attitudes towards radiation. The effects...
    263 KB (32,794 words) - 12:53, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Personal protective equipment
    Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from...
    34 KB (3,916 words) - 12:26, 12 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cystamine
    and radiation-protective agent. Thiols can be synthesized to disulfides like cystamine through chemical oxidation with various oxidizing agents (molecular...
    11 KB (1,063 words) - 21:50, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Acute radiation syndrome
    Acute radiation syndrome (ARS), also known as radiation sickness or radiation poisoning, is a collection of health effects that are caused by being exposed...
    65 KB (6,761 words) - 19:57, 14 October 2024
  • therapeutic agent is concentrated in its desirable area of effect. For example, in radiation therapy for cancerous tumors, shaping the radiation beam precisely...
    25 KB (3,218 words) - 19:35, 11 October 2024
  • A radiation accident occurred in Samut Prakan Province, Thailand in January–February 2000. The accident happened when an insecurely stored unlicensed...
    23 KB (2,869 words) - 02:28, 12 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electromagnetic radiation and health
    Electromagnetic radiation can be classified into two types: ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation, based on the capability of a single photon...
    45 KB (4,640 words) - 17:10, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radiation therapy
    Radiation therapy or radiotherapy (RT, RTx, or XRT) is a treatment using ionizing radiation, generally provided as part of cancer therapy to either kill...
    113 KB (13,533 words) - 08:38, 8 November 2024
  • listed individually as Group 1 agents. There is also convincing evidence in humans that these agents confer a protective effect against cancer in the endometrium...
    12 KB (1,207 words) - 02:46, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ultraviolet
    electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays. UV radiation is present in sunlight...
    117 KB (12,667 words) - 17:57, 9 November 2024
  • and temperatures, corrosive and toxic chemicals and chemical vapours, radiation, fire, explosions, and biohazards including infective organisms and their...
    22 KB (2,325 words) - 06:02, 6 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hormesis
    Hormesis (section Radiation)
    1007/978-3-642-03720-7. ISBN 978-3-642-42566-0. "Ionizing radiation, health effects and protective measures". World Health Organization. Retrieved 2017-02-16...
    30 KB (3,300 words) - 04:26, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Potassium iodide
    mercury poisoning. Potassium iodide's (KI) value as a radiation protective (thyroid blocking) agent was demonstrated following the Chernobyl nuclear reactor...
    54 KB (5,662 words) - 18:35, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Radiation hormesis
    that much higher levels of radiation are hazardous. Proponents of radiation hormesis typically claim that radio-protective responses in cells and the...
    56 KB (6,794 words) - 17:08, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for M17 gas mask
    The M17 Protective Mask is a series of gas masks that were designed and produced in 1959 (as a replacement of the M-9 gas mask) to provide protection from...
    5 KB (695 words) - 22:09, 12 April 2024
  • Novichok (redirect from Novichyok agent)
    chemical protective gear...Novichok agents may consist of two separate 'non-toxic' components that, when mixed, become the active nerve agent...The binary...
    73 KB (8,080 words) - 14:16, 20 October 2024
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    Mutagen (redirect from Antimutagenic agents)
    which was suggested to be a causative agent of cancer over 150 years earlier. The association of exposure to radiation and cancer had been observed as early...
    52 KB (6,017 words) - 05:31, 27 September 2024
  • "MIL-SPECS". Every Spec. "Evaluation of Chemical Agent Resistant Coatings That Are Exposed to Ultraviolet Radiation" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on...
    5 KB (592 words) - 11:43, 9 August 2024
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    X-ray (redirect from Roentgen radiation)
    X-ray (also known in many languages as Röntgen radiation) is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of ultraviolet...
    105 KB (12,625 words) - 23:06, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cladosporium sphaerospermum
    of the pigmented secondary metabolite, melanin, thought to serve as a protective mechanism against UV irradiation, enzymatic lysis, oxidant attack, and...
    17 KB (1,910 words) - 20:29, 4 November 2024
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