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Near the beginning the article states: > After reading many animal toxicology studies that found that this radiation could increase oxidative stress — free rad
by rocqua 5y ago
Near the beginning the article states:
> After reading many animal toxicology studies that found that this radiation could increase oxidative stress — free radicals, stress proteins and DNA damage
Not knowing enough about chemistry, I could imagine the radiation being able to affect some of the weaker bonds in certain chemicals, breaking them, and creating more energetic new compounds. This could be damaging to among other things, DNA.
I know the photo-voltaic effect means there is a certain threshold frequency needed to be able to affect such bonds. I have no idea whether there are any chemical bonds that can be affected by say 5.8Ghz radiation. (Highest frequency non 5G phones should be emitting)
- wizzwizz4 5y ago> I could imagine the radiation being able to affect some of the weaker bonds in certain chemicals, breaking them, Nope. Unless those bonds could break due to localised heating, that's not going to happen. Radio waves have lower per-photon energies than are required to break bonds (except really really weak ones, but those can barely be called bonds in the first place).
- jlglover 5y ago> I could imagine the radiation being able to affect some of the weaker bonds in certain chemicals What you are describing is ionizing radiation, which RF and microwave is not.
- LinAGKar 5y agoNot really. Ionizing radiation can knock electrons out of atoms. This sounds like knocking atoms out of molecules. But the wavelength these radio waves is several cm, so it's dubious that they would affect individual atoms, or even individual cells.