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It's used medically, for example for nurses and doctors who work with radioactive tracers; they wear big aprons with lead in it which absorb any radiation that
by athenot 3y ago
It's used medically, for example for nurses and doctors who work with radioactive tracers; they wear big aprons with lead in it which absorb any radiation that would be ok once in a while but that you don't want exposed to every single day at work.
- londons_explore 3y agoTrue - but lead doesn't actually perform much better than say steel, per unit weight.