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Nuclear chain reactions, explosive or otherwise, produce four types of destructive radiation: 1) alpha rays (streams of high-speed helium nuclei;; 2) beta rays (beams of electrons); 3) gamma rays or X rays (high-frequency electromagnetic waves akin to light); 4) neutrons (subatomic particles with no electric charge...
...Gamma rays are rougher. If they are "hard"' (high frequency), they slam through many feet of most materials. The human body can stand a certain amount of them without apparent damage. If the system gets too much, the blood corpuscles disintegrate...
Some substances in the pile" give off gamma rays (X rays). Scientists see no reason why they should not be used to take pictures of infected teeth or flaws in steel castings...
...killed outright. Said Draeger: "We want radiation sick animals, but not radiation-dead animals."* After the blast, the goats, pigs and rats will be collected and rushed to the U.S.S. Burleson, a transport equipped to house them. There, medics will study the effect upon them of the deadly gamma rays...
...corn varieties are native to Guatemala and southern Mexico -just as the peach is native to China. the English walnut to Persia, celery to the Mediterranean. Sometime around the 5th Century, primitive South American corn, which had small, globular ears and irregular kernels, was crossed with the strong, tall gamma grass which grows in Central America. Result of this crossbreeding was teosinte, an earless corn-producing plant which still grows wild in Mexico and the highlands of Guatemala. Crossed and recrossed with South American corn, teosinte produced the elongated ear and regular rows characteristic of modern corn...