Physical Effects Of Radon And Its Effects On People

I chose Radon because of the physical properties Radon has and the effect it has on people. Radon is depicted as being almost rainbow like but with the element being odorless, tasteless and colorless noble gas it technically has no physical properties. Radon also has very short life of about 3.8 days but being that the element is a decay product of Radium, Radon will constantly be reproduced since Radium has a life expectancy of billions of years. Radon is also found in most homes and effects air quality worldwide. As its harmful to humans it's not as harmful in small amounts, being the second cause of lung cancer following close behind cigarette smoking this is not an element that should be taken lightly though. Extreme caution and safety measures should be used at all times when around Radon and its its not so distant relatives.

Though in 1899 two physicians by the names of Pierre Curie and Marie Curie were studying Radon and discovered that the gases emitted by this element lasted for about 30 days. As Robert B. Owens and Ernest Rutherford were studying thorium oxide they saw variations is radiation when trying to measure the radiation from thorium oxide. While studying the element once again Rutherford noticed that the compounds of thorium constantly emit a radioactive gas that absorb the radioactive powers for a short amount of time, Ernest Rutherford called this gas emanation. In 1910 Ramsay Gray and Robert Gray isolated radon figured out its density, and found out that it was the heaviest known gas in the