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Radioactivity — Question 25

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Question 25

State three safety precautions that you would take while handling the radioactive substances.

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Safety precautions that people should take while handling the radioactive substances are —

  1. They should put on special lead lined aprons and lead gloves.
  2. They should handle the radioactive materials with long lead tongs.
  3. The radioactive substances must be kept in a thick lead container with a very narrow opening, so that the walls of the container absorb the radiations which strike on them from the inside and thus radiations only come out through the narrow opening.