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Industry : Consumer Products
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Radioisotopes are used in a number of consumer products, so much so, that probably not a day goes by, without you having run into some consumer product that relied on some radioisotope application. Indeed they are now vital to industry. Here are a few examples:
- Smoke detectors - a smoke detector contains a small amount of americium-241 in the sensing unit that triggers the alarm when there is smoke
- Soft drink bottles - radioisotopes are used to measure and control how much soda there is in soft drink bottles
- Shrink wrap film/plastic insulation on wires -- the plastic is shrunk by radiation instead of using heat, which damages the insulation
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