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China - Experts Warn About Radon Exposure in Granite Used for Homes

sharon sanders

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Home improvement brought air pollution problems of granite or carcinogenic killer
Source: Hunting Housing Network At 10:11 on the September 19th, 2012

  The epidemic of home improvement has brought the issue of indoor air pollution, indoor air pollution and even became a national focus, experts said stone widespread radioactive red and green granite is the most serious, they release more radon Substances that cause lung cancer.
  Exceeded residential air pollution, has requested the guerrillas decoration, please decoration company decoration. In general, the extensive use of artificial board decoration indoor pollution exceeded the likely high. Formaldehyde pollution is also more common in the finished wooden furniture, wood flooring solid wood furniture and the regular manufacturers less polluting.
  "Once forming pollution prevention formaldehyde pollution from the source, it is not good to cure the Gongde Wei said, the formaldehyde release period of 3 to 15 years, governance is a long process, and therefore consumers should buy materials, decoration should began to pay attention to the prevention of pollution.
  Senior Engineer Liu Qiling Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, benzene, formaldehyde and other indoor pollution has been gradually attention, but also lack of knowledge of radiation contamination of building materials. She pointed out that the stone radioactive harm to human body, there are two, one stone decay of radionuclides emit X-rays on the human body caused by external irradiation, but the probability is very low; another release of radon on the human body cause internal irradiation. Radon is a radioactive decay products of uranium, radium and thorium in the earth's crust, radon is listed as one of the 19 kinds of carcinogen induced lung produce.
  According to the detection, the different colors of the stone its radioactivity is also different. Is red and green, white, black is the lowest. Therefore, consumers should be careful to choose red, green or red blotches granite varieties. Granite should not be in the room a lot of use, especially not in the bedroom, children's room.
  
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