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Aberdeen granite radiation.
Aberdeen scotland is famous as the granite city and all the radionuclides expose the inhabitants to 120 mrem per year.
There are a few things you should know about aberdeen.
Aberdeen is also known in scotland as the granite city.
One is that the city is made of granite and therefore has a very high background level of radiation.
The average radioactive background dose in the uk is 2 7 millisieverts.
Is radon and radiation a real concern.
Strictly speaking granite is an.
Radium and radon are important contributors to environmental radioactivity radon occurs naturally in the environment as a result of decay of radioactive elements in the soil and it can accumulate in houses built on areas where such decay occurs.
Aberdeen in scotland for example is founded on radium rich rock and is often called a radioactive city.
Radon is among the major causes of cancer.
We are encouraging everyone who has received high radon results.
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Aberdeen was founded on radium rich rock and has many buildings created from granite this is where t.
Public health minister michael matheson said.
It is estimated to contribute to about 2 of all cancer related deaths in europe.
The dust is trapped in airways and emits radiation that damages the inside of lungs.
The locally quarried grey granite used in the buildings sparkles like silver due to the high mica content and the city is known as the granite city or the silver city.
But without fissures in that rock for radon to escape the dangerous gas remains.
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If you live in a brick house that s 1 31 millirem per year and concrete is.
Granite ˈ ɡ r æ n ɪ t is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.