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Does your cellphone send radiation when it's in flight mode?
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While there are : Electromagnetic waves everywhere, whether you have your phone in "airplane mode" or off. These energies are at best weakly ionizing and not very penetrating. Airplane mode prevents the device from sending or receiving signals.
Answered 2/28/2013
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