Comment on Martin L. Pall “Millimeter (MM) wave and microwave frequency radiation produce deeply penetrating effects: the biology and the physics”, Rev Environ Health, 2021

Enrique Arribas; Isabel Escobar; Antonio Martinez-Plaza; Raquel Ramirez-Vazquez

doi:10.1515/reveh-2021-0180

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Comment on Martin L. Pall “Millimeter (MM) wave and microwave frequency radiation produce deeply penetrating effects: the biology and the physics”, Rev Environ Health, 2021

Enrique Arribas , Isabel Escobar , Antonio Martinez-Plaza and Raquel Ramirez-Vazquez

Published/Copyright: February 10, 2022

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Abstract

In this letter, we present some comments related to Pall’s publication, in which Pall states that the electric field disappears after a few centimeters and that the magnetic field continues progressing within the studied material.

Keywords: electromagnetic wave; millimeter wave; Near and Far Field Zone; Poynting vector; radiofrequency

Corresponding author: Raquel Ramirez-Vazquez, Applied Physics Department, Faculty of Computer Science Engineering, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Avda. España s/n, E-02071, Albacete, Spain, E-mail: raquel.ramirez@uclm.es

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Received: 2021-12-29

Accepted: 2022-01-24

Published Online: 2022-02-10

Published in Print: 2023-03-28

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electromagnetic wave; millimeter wave; Near and Far Field Zone; Poynting vector; radiofrequency