I stuck on a documentary about Chernobyl, there was a clip of a pair of boots the fireman were wearing near the plant and the levels of radiation went stupidly high. How can an object like the boots show such a high reading but other objects in the room show lower readings? They also shown a cloth the nurses used on the fireman and the reader did the same thing.
Howcome that happens? Does radiation “stick” to objects?
In: Physics
Neuron radiation can activate (make radioactive) certain materials.
Basically a neutron ejected from a decaying atom can end up wedged in another atom. This can cause the previously stable nucleus to become unstable, and thus will undergo radioactive decay at some point in the future.
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