When compared to visible light, which is not very penetrating, why can radiation such as x-rays and gamma rays pass right through the human body? Because:
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D: X and gamma rays are high energy radiation, which means high frequency, which means short wavelength, which means that many of the photons will pass through the body without interacting with any atoms. The other three choices do not distinguish between different types of radiation.
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