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Is getting sunburnt after being at the beach all day a convection, conduction, or radiation?

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Answer:

It is ultraviolet radiation, which is going to be radiation.

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When ultraviolet radiation from the sun reaches the skin, it damages the skin cells and causes mutations in their DNA.

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Answer:

radiation because heat is being transferred

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