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The safety limits set on the allowed radiation from cellular phones are solely determined from the heating aspect. The body can safely handle a temperature increase of one degree and this leads to a limit of 1.7 W/kg, for the absorption of radiation power per kilogram tissue. This corresponds to a limit of 0.7 W on the output from a cellular phone. The present work gives a brief description of another possible effect that might be induced by the radiation, viz. a modification of the dispersion forces between tissue-components. In our model calculations on the force between two red blood cells in blood we found a dramatic enhancement, of several orders of magnitude, of the attractive forces. More details of the work can be found in: Bo E. Sernelius, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 6, 1363-1368, 2004, and of the underlying theories in: Bo E. Sernelius, Surface Modes in Physics, Wiley-VCH, Berlin, 2001.
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SERNELIUS, B.E. (2006). CAN THE RADIATION FROM CELLULAR PHONES HAVE IMPORTANT EFFECTS ON THE FORCES BETWEEN BIOLOGICALTISSUE-COMPONENTS?. In: Ayrapetyan, S.N., Markov, M.S. (eds) BIOELECTROMAGNETICS Current Concepts. NATO Security Through Science Series. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4278-7_23
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