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Non-ionizing.

• askvictor 4y ago
  Probably non-iodizing too.
• tsimionescu 4y ago
  To be fair, the radiation is also non-iodizing!
  • Eleison23 4y ago
    So it does not need to carry the FDA's fake warning label?
  • mensetmanusman 4y ago
    Radioactive decay emits neurons with enough energy to strip electrons from molecules that it shoots through. This is how it can tear apart DNA, which would chemically react after impact/ion generation (stripped electrons), and cause cancer.
    • tsimionescu 4y ago
      I'm pretty sure no radioactive decay has ever been observed emitting a neuron (a brain cell), though you probably mean "neutron", which would be correct. I was only making a joke - "iodizing" radiation would be radiation that causes something to react with iodine, which no known form of radiation would. The GP meant "ionizing" radiation, which is what you are describing as well. Now that you mention it, I suppose it's possible for ionizing radiation to cause something to react with iodine, making it "iodizing" radiation as well. Either way, radio waves are non-ionizing radiation. To the extent that they can create problems in the human body, they will do it by causing heating (like microwaves), not by stripping off electrons to create ions (and certainly not by forcing other molecules to react with iodine).