What Uses Gamma Rays?

Gamma rays are used in medicine (radiotherapy), industry (sterilization and disinfection) and the nuclear industry. Shielding against gamma rays is essential because they can cause diseases to skin or blood, eye disorders and cancers.

What are 3 uses of gamma rays?

Uses of Gamma Rays:
  • Sterilize medical equipment.
  • Sterilize food (irradiated food)
  • Used as tracers in medicine.
  • Radio Therapy- In oncology, to kill cancerous cells.
  • Gamma-Ray Astronomy.

What objects uses gamma rays?

Things like supernova explosions (the way massive stars die), neutron stars and pulsars, and black holes are all sources of celestial gamma-rays.

Sophia Al-Mansoor

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