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?
In: Chemistry
No, not unless the dose is *extreme*. A high enough flux could cause immediate burns. Firefighters at Chernobyl noticed a metallic taste in their mouths, but that was an outrageous level of radiation.
If you had a container of some radioactive element, you wouldn’t know based on your senses. That’s why it’s so dangerous, you could be exposed and not know until you began dying.
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