Are bananas radioactive?
Moment Of Um
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🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Bananas are a delicious, nutritious fruit! You can pack them in a picnic lunch or bake them into a sweet nutty banana bread. But are bananas radioactive? We asked Dr. Robert Chin to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind Brainson, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:03.6 | Moment of um. |
| 0:06.6 | Moment of um comes to you from APM studios. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm nervous Nellie |
| 0:14.0 | You've caught me at a |
| 0:16.0 | uh... |
| 0:20.0 | you've caught me at a really bad time. You see, I'm supposed to go over to my friend's house for the first time ever, and I'm feeling pretty nervous. |
| 0:31.0 | What if I have to go to the bathroom, and I'm too shy to ask where it is? Or what if we have peanut |
| 0:37.5 | butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch? But she only has orange marmalade, all those little chunks of orange peel in there, |
| 0:46.7 | eugh! Or what if I accidentally bump into her fish tank and her goldfish jumps out and I try to catch it but it's too slippery. |
| 0:55.7 | The world can be a scary stressful place and there's even stuff out there that I'm not sure if I should be nervous about. |
| 1:05.6 | Like the other day I heard that bananas are radioactive. Is that true? And if so, what does it even mean? My friend Zoe and Ali were wondering the same thing. Hi, I'm Zoe, and I'm Alice. And we live in Norland, Washington. |
| 1:26.6 | And we recently heard that bananas are radioactive. |
| 1:29.6 | Is this true? This true. Bananas are indeed radioactive. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm Robert Chin. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm a radiation oncologist at UCLA. |
| 1:45.0 | So we treat cancer patients with high energy radiation beams |
| 1:50.0 | so that tumors out of people. |
| 1:53.0 | Radiation is the energy given off by a lot of the atoms in our universe, |
| 2:00.0 | especially the atoms that are unstable and need to get to a more stable state. |
| 2:05.5 | Bananas are radioactive because bananas have a lot of potassium in them. |
| 2:11.0 | And potassium has a rare version that is a little bit unstable. And to get from |
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