Radiation can be ionizing if its quantum energy is high enough (E?-10 eV) to release electrons from atomic or molecular structures. Ionizing radiation occurs in the photoelectric effect where a photon delivers all of its energy to a bound electron, especially for low-energy gamma rays. The probability of the photoelectric effect increases with the fifth power of the material's atomic number.
Radiation can be ionizing if its quantum energy is high enough (E?-10 eV) to release electrons from atomic or molecular structures. Ionizing radiation occurs in the photoelectric effect where a photon delivers all of its energy to a bound electron, especially for low-energy gamma rays. The probability of the photoelectric effect increases with the fifth power of the material's atomic number.
Radiation can be ionizing if its quantum energy is high enough (E?-10 eV) to release electrons from atomic or molecular structures. Ionizing radiation occurs in the photoelectric effect where a photon delivers all of its energy to a bound electron, especially for low-energy gamma rays. The probability of the photoelectric effect increases with the fifth power of the material's atomic number.
-Ionizante:A given type of radiation is called "ionizing", if its quantum energy is
high enough (E?-10 eV) to release electrons from an atomic or molecular structure. -in the photoelectric effect a photon delivers all of its energy to a bound electron in the absorbing matter. This process prevails in the region oflow-energy y rays; its probability increases with the fifth power of the material's atomic numbe -