Can radiation be felt? If I pick up a tube containing radioactive material, would I feel the radiation coming off it in any way, or would it feel just like a regular metal tube?

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Can radiation be felt? If I pick up a tube containing radioactive material, would I feel the radiation coming off it in any way, or would it feel just like a regular metal tube?

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If there’s enough radiation of the right type in the metal tube, you might feel secondary warmth from that radiation being absorbed in the metal, but that’s not the radiation itself being felt.

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