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monitor radiation
Name: Galrok Date: February 19, 2003 at 11:50:42 Pacific OS: windows 2000 CPU/Ram: 260 RAM
Comment:
Hey, Im doing a project on computers and i just wanted to know if the radiation given off from the monitor is harmful to us and to the environment. If so how. Thanks in advance
Name: frink36 Date: February 19, 2003 at 12:51:09 Pacific
Reply:
No, the radiation is not dangerous. First of all, very little is given off. Second, it is alpha rays, they least harmful rays, its the kind from a microwave. The WORST Alpha rays can do (after constant exposure for 2 weeks) is a rash. It doesnt hurt the environment either.
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Response Number 2
Name: borelli34 Date: February 19, 2003 at 12:55:39 Pacific
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Well, comparitively speaking, a monitor is nothing more than a low grade television (this depends on the style of monitor you are using of course). Thier use to be about 12 times the radiation than what you find in todays monitors and it was primarily due to the phosphorus found in the tube. Todays devices can use far less (or even different materials altogether; again, depending on the make and year of the monitor) than they have in the past allowing the designers to build a device that also saves on power costs because it does not need the same load that they once did. Still, there is radiation and the primary concern has always been whether or not it is a primary contributer to cancer in the future. This subject, as I am sure you are aware, has been highly argumentative and certainly contreversial for many years now so it still leaves the buyer to 'be ware', as they say. Unfortunately, that is all that can really be said though. Just simple speculation. At least, if there has been more in depth studies on the subject, I haven't heard of them.
borelli34
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Response Number 3
Name: ScottS Date: February 20, 2003 at 06:01:52 Pacific
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Monitors are safe to use and pose no radiation problem to the user. But the comment made about being safe for the enviornment is incorrect. Monitors and tv's are considered hazardous material when it comes to dumping. Most dumps will not knowingly take them. That's probably why most stuff like that is shipped to china and dumped there. They don't have the same laws we have when it comes to hazardous dumping.
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Response Number 4
Name: Galrok Date: February 20, 2003 at 06:59:18 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you to all! This is very helpful for my project.
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Response Number 5
Name: Galrok Date: February 20, 2003 at 07:00:54 Pacific
Reply:
Just one more question. Will the monitor affect your eyes in anyway?
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