How do smoke alarms detect smoke? (part 1)
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Effects of Alpha Radiation on Smoke Detectors
So essentially, they're just shooting out dangerous energy when they relax. Even the ultraviolet is dangerous. X-ray is dangerous. And then gamma is even more dangerous. So that's we've gone over the two sort of types of radiation that are going to come into play.
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