Are 50/60 Hz magnetic fields carcinogenic
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Magnetic fields are present everywhere in our environment. They are commonly measured in Tesla (T), the international unit for magnetic flux density. One Tesla is a very high magnetic field. Human exposures to such high fields occur only with magnetic resonance imaging machines (MRI machines which are used for medical imaging), which produce magnetic field levels up to a few Tesla. To describe magnetic fields in our normal environment, a more appropriate unit is the micro Tesla (the symbol is μT) which is one millionth of a Tesla (0.000001 T)
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