Effects of radiation on living organisms
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چکیده
The term radiation is elastic. Unfortunately it has come to mean “something terrible” in ordinary conversation. Literally radiation means “anything emitted from a localized source”, but in the context of biology we mean something quite specific. Human beings live amidst a sea of radiation of all sorts. It is useful to classify these radiations according to their biological effects, especially on human beings.
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