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Are neutrinos dangerous

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They are able to pass the blood brain barrier and may never leave your body, theres a strong chance that they are carcinogens also. At present there is very little data available on the toxicity of nanoparticles

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Neutron radiation is a kind of ionizing radiation which consists of free neutrons. A result of nuclear fission or nuclear fusion, it consists of the release of free neutrons from both stable molecules and isotopes, and these free neutrons react with nucleiof other stable molecules to form new isotopes of previously non-isotopic molecules, which in turn produce radiation. This will result in a chain reaction of nuclear radiation, which makes radiation dangerous and harmful over great areas of space.

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No, they are so small they barely interact with matter - in the region of 10 billion pass through the area the size of your fingernail every second!

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Viruses are nanoparticles, and they can be dangerous.

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What is a solar neutrinos?

Solar neutrinos are electron neutrinos that are in the sun. The sun is what produces nuclear fusion.


Can neutrinos change into other types of neutrinos?

Yes; the scienific terminology for this phenomenon is "neutrino oscillation". Neutrinos exist in three different flavours - electron, muon and tao neutrinos, listed in order of increasing mass (each also has an antiparticle). Although it is not know why this is the case, it was originally discovered that neutrinos oscillate when examining the neutrinos emitted by the sun; although primarily electron neutrinos are emitted as a result of the fusion process within the sun, the quantities of the different flavours of neutrinos detected on Earth from the sun are in roughly equal proportions.


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Are neutrinos mediated by electromagnetic interaction?

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What can penetrate the sun?

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Astronomers are interested in solar neutrinos because neutrinos carry with them information about?

The nuclear reactions going on in the heart of the Sun.


What does a neutrinos do?

Neutrinos are elementary particles that travel close to the speed of light, lack an electric charge, are able to pass through ordinary matter almost undisturbed and are thus extremely difficult to detect. Neutrinos have a minuscule, but non-zero, mass that was too small to be measured as of 2007.


Is neutrinos faster than light?

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What travels on through solids?

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