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Chlorine Content Shapes How Psychoactive Drugs Block Radiation
Original: Chlorine Atoms and Density Decide How Psychoactive Drugs Attenuate X-rays and Gamma Rays
A new study finds that the chlorine atoms in psychoactive drugs, together with the materials' density, determine how effectively these compounds attenuate X-rays and gamma rays. The work links molecular composition to radiation shielding performance, offering insights that could matter for medical imaging, radiotherapy and radiation protection applications involving pharmaceutical compounds.
Why now: A newly published physics study on radiation attenuation in psychoactive drugs is drawing attention from the scientific community.
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Evidence
- Chlorine Atoms and Density Decide How Psychoactive Drugs Attenuate X-rays and Gamma Rays · Bioengineer.org
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