Uses of Nuclear Radiation in Industry

Series: Nuclear Radiation Series

Duration: 14

Year Published: 1961

Creator: Cenco Educational Film

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Defines radioisotopes, shows how they may be produced artificially, and enumerates their uses in industry. Lists as factors making radioisotopes useful: their ability to alter their surrounding materials, that they can be traced even when in minute quantities, and that gamma rays given off by them pass through almost all substances. Shows radioisotopes used in tracing the rate of wearing parts, in controlling the thickness of materials, the level of liquids, and the density of packings. Explains the use of gamma rays in the preservation of foods.

Complete Record: Defines radioisotopes, shows how they may be produced artificially, and enumerates their uses in industry. Lists as factors making radioisotopes useful: their ability to alter their surrounding materials, that they can be traced even when in minute quantities, and that gamma rays given off by them pass through almost all substances. Shows radioisotopes used in tracing the rate of wearing parts, in controlling the thickness of materials, the level of liquids, and the density of packings. Explains the use of gamma rays in the preservation of foods., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.