Just look at what happened to this American man!
Radiation warning signs
In the last century, an American boy named Byers drank 1400 glasses of radium-containing water in three years.
Yes, you heard it right, it was the radium that Marie Curie found, and he drank it! It turned out to be tantamount to death, and in the end Byers died a terrible death.
Eben Byers
So the question is, how do good people drink radium water, is it a long life? This brings us to the commercial scams of the last century.
How can radium become a drink? How is radiation generated? What are the dangers of radiation? Is radiation really useless?
American men drank 1400 cups of radium water, and the consequence was that no whole body could only be put in a lead coffin!
Radium: Can cure diseases, can make fluorescent substances shine, beautiful and practical?
Radium scam
When we think of radium, we think of a great woman, Marie Curie, the famous Marie Curie.
She and her husband won the Nobel Prize by refining 0.1 grams of radium from tons of asphalt.
In modern medicine, radium is used to treat cancer because it is a radioactive element that produces radiation that kills cancer cells. However, Marie Curie eventually died of cancer because of her long-term exposure to RADIUM. She would not have imagined that after her death, some capitalists would still use radium as a gimmick to sell goods.
Marie Curie's 1911 Nobel Prize certificate
Marie Curie not only discovered radium, but also developed ways to use radium for the treatment of cancer and imaging medicine.
So radium is associated with anti-cancer.
When Marie Curie was still alive, these people did not dare to make a fuss about radium, but after her death, capitalists added radium to cosmetics and drinks, called it "anti-cancer", and sold it at a high price.
Byers is also a cancer fighter, he bought radium-mixed water and drank it for 3 years.
In this 3-year period, Byers drank a total of 1400 glasses of radium water. However, instead of keeping Byers away from cancer, radium water caused it to suffer from a variety of cancers.
His hair fell out, his teeth fell out, and finally his entire skin was purulent and decayed, and he died in pain.
The most famous health product is "Radium Supplement", which Biles drinks
What's worse is that because of the radiation in his body, he can't be buried in the cemetery at all, otherwise he will pollute the local soil. In the end, he was placed in a coffin made of lead, which was buried.
But at this time, most of his corpses had already melted, and there was no corpse.
Byers's death shocked the society at that time, and people discovered that those goods under the guise of "anti-cancer" were actually real carcinogens.
Byers had cancer on his chin
How is radiation generated?
Elements such as radium, uranium, and plutonium are radioactive, which is what we often call radiation, so they are called radioactive elements.
So how do these radioactive elements produce radiation?
Mendeleev's periodic table is not only a family tree of elements, but also a table of element births, which is the epitome of the order of the elements formed in the universe for 14.6 billion years.
The first element, hydrogen, was the first element born in the universe and the "first of the elements", and it was its nuclear fusion that brought about the later periodic table. Small atoms can be formed into large atoms through fusion, and in the same way, large atoms split into small atoms.
periodic table
Like radium, its relative atomic mass of 226 is super-heavy atoms, so they will have a half-life in their natural state, that is, the nucleus autonomously split into the original half.
Usually this time is very long, and the half-life of radium is 1600 years.
During the half-life, the nucleus splits into particles such as protons and neutrons, releases energy in the form of γ and α rays, and obtains radon, a radioactive gas.
Therefore, those with radium water, cosmetics, etc., are mobile radioactive sources, they will not only endanger the people who use them, but even transporters, packers, etc. will be harmed by radiation.
Schematic of nuclear fission
The most frightening thing is that there is also radiation on the packaging bags of these products, and their residues have entered all corners.
Radium has a half-life of 1600 years, and it will continue to last for the next half-life after 1600, which is equivalent to it staying with humans forever.
So what is the harm of radiation to the human body?
Radiation doses are harmful to the human body to varying degrees
Hazards of radiation
The biggest harm of radiation is to induce cell cancer, so that normal human cells become cancer cells through mutation. Cancer cells will grow and divide indefinitely, quickly occupying the human body and destroying humans from the inside out.
In addition, radiation kills cells directly. Killing brain cells directly dementia, killing eye cells will blindness, if killing human immune cells, then the human defense value becomes 0.
Without immunity, a slight cold can be fatal, not to mention that immunity is the key to preventing human cells from becoming cancerous.
When immune cells die, cancer cells become more unscrupulous.
Radiopharmaceuticals and their structures
At that time, Byers lost his hair and teeth, and his skin turned into pus, because the radium water he drank produced radiation, killing his hair follicle cells, oral cells, and skin cells.
He later died because his muscle cells had also withered.
The more vigorous the cells, the greater the probability of mutation after encountering radiation, and if the fetus or child is irradiated, they are more likely to have genetic mutations than adults. This is also why the B ultrasound used in the hospital's obstetric examination is not recommended for children to take X-rays.
However, the X-rays used in hospitals basically do not have to worry about radiation damage
There have been two serious radiation incidents in human history, one in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, which killed millions of people as a result of the U.S. dropping nuclear bombs.
To this day, the radiation residue of the nuclear bomb still exists in these two cities.
The second was the 1986 leak of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the former Soviet Union, which killed 97,000 people and developed cancer, which is still a forbidden area for human beings.
In addition to people being irradiated, other animals and plants will also be irradiated, and the monsters in the movie "Godzilla" are caused by radiation, although it is science fiction, but scientists say that this variant form is not ruled out.
Because variation is uncontrollable, full of contingencies and randomness, we still don't know what animals will become after being irradiated.
Godzilla, a giant beast contaminated with nuclear radiation
And radiation will remain in the body of animals and plants, if eaten by humans, according to the principle of biological enrichment, the last person with the most radiation in the body is the human at the top of the food chain.
So is radiation really useless? Of course not, anything good or bad is not absolute.
The enrichment in the organism is not diluted and is constantly transferred through the food chain
We always talk about radiation discoloration, thinking that radiation is terrible, in fact, human development is inseparable from radiation.
Radiation can make ordinary cells cancerous, but it can also kill cancer cells, and if used properly, it can become a cancer cell killer.
Radium does have anti-cancer effects, but it depends on the method of use, like those bad merchants to add it to water and cosmetics, is a very ignorant and immoral behavior.
Radiation can denature DNA, the destruction of microorganisms is fatal, so radiation is a first-class hero in sterilization, and artificial ultraviolet lamps are also a good helper for mosquitoes.
The most rays in the universe, humans send seeds into space to receive radiation, resulting in new varieties, some of which have high yields and can solve the human food crisis.
Radial rays play a role in cancer cells
So what should we do to keep ourselves exposed to radiation?
How to prevent radiation?
Due to the radium water incident that occurred that year, there are strict requirements for the use of radiation in the world, and it is difficult for ordinary people to be exposed to strong radiation in their lifetime.
The closest radiation to us is the ultraviolet rays of the sun, and long-term exposure to the sun will cause skin cancer because of ultraviolet radiation.
Therefore, outdoor activities, it is best to do a good job of sun protection. Sunscreen is divided into physical sunscreen and chemical sunscreen.
Physical sun protection is to isolate the skin from contact with the sun, such as wearing sunscreen clothing, wearing umbrellas, etc. Chemical sunscreen, on the other hand, uses sunscreen to form a layer of protection on the surface of the skin.
The most dangerous of sunlight is ultraviolet b (UVB), which affects the person's immune system
There are also some natural radiations in nature, such as ores, so some very beautiful gemstones are likely to carry radiation.
If you find yourself with frequent hair loss, inexplicable bleeding from your gums, decreased body resistance, blurred vision, etc., you should go to the hospital for examination, most likely exposed to radiation sources.
In addition, when you see unfamiliar metals outdoors, especially especially shiny ones, don't pick them up, you should immediately stay away and call the police. This "silver ring" has been picked up before and killed, because this type of metal is most likely a radioactive source used in industry.
Beware when you see this sign!
By the way, radiation protection should also respect science. Computers, microwave ovens have radiation, it is true, but not completely right, the radiation of these electrical appliances is not produced by rays, and the energy is also very low, basically no harm to the human body.