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Radon, The Little Known Killer
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Radon is a cancer-causing radioactive gas.¹ It can not be seen, smelled or tasted; the gas contains a very small metallic particles, small enough to float in the air and can progress quickly through a building or home, contaminating the air. The spontaneous disintegration or decay of the nucleus of an atom by emission of particles, usually accompanied by electromagnetic radiation so, natural radioactivity is exhibited by several elements, including uranium, radium, radon gas, and radon's daughters.¹ The deposited atoms decay, or change, by emitting a type of radiation called alpha radiation, that can potentially damage cells in the lungs.² When you breathe air containing radon, you increase your risk of getting lung cancer. Radon has be
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