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Beta radiation is: in some ways safer than alpha radiation because it ionizes less than alpha radiation easier to block than alpha radiation similar to a helium nucleus the only physical particle that
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Beta radiation is:
in some ways safer than alpha radiation because it ionizes less than alpha radiation
easier to block than alpha radiation
similar to a helium nucleus
the only physical particle that atomic nuclei can emit
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in some ways safer than alpha radiation because it ionizes less than alpha radiation
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