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== Health Risks == | == Health Risks == | ||
Americium being in the smoke detectors at home gives us some dose of radio active partials but only 0.014 mrem to a person who is sleeping for 8 hr. at about 6ft away form a smoke detector. Americium can cause cancer but only in huge doses and if ingested or inhaled would be absorbed through the skeleton and the liver. for Am-241 it could be ingested and not cause damage from a normal smoke detector if the Am-241 is dioxide insoluble form witch most house hold detectors use and cause little to no radiation poisoning.<ref>Jefferson Lab [http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/rp/factsheets/factsheets-pdf/fs23am241.pdf Health risks of Ameicium “Environmental Radioactivity, Eisenbud, Merril & Gesell, Thomas,”. Web. 1997.</ref> | |||
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