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muminat
4 years ago
6

What is the difference between acute and chronic radiation poisoning

Chemistry
1 answer:
otez555 [7]4 years ago
4 0
Acute: Can be repaired by the body using white blood cells.

Chronic: High doses causing internal bleeding and breakdown of cells causing slow death, 90% of the times cannot be fixed by any medicines.
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