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123	A couple of questions.... 1) Has anyone or agency posted / produced a chart of typical ionization energies found in nature (and around us every day)? I realize...	Dave angelshamshel	Sep 1, 2003 4:20 pm
124	... seller ... counter in his ... Eheheh, ok mystery solved ! I thinks you have purchase a good test souce. Greetings, Davide...	dax_italy	Sep 2, 2003 4:40 pm
125	Hi... I'm a newbie in this group. and have a few questions... Please help me... About radioactive sources... I have a 241Am source (from a smoke detector) and...	martelno	Sep 5, 2003 4:06 pm
126	but for the U rock? It is an alpha and ... Is ... I suggest you to put Uranium in a glass sealed container, i use a tomatoes or other glass closed vase. That...	dax_italy	Sep 5, 2003 4:41 pm
127	... Is ... K0FF is one of the people who sells spinthrascopes on Ebay, and as of a few days ago, he was also selling the disks on their own. From memory, the...	Justin -harlequin-	Sep 6, 2003 12:05 am
128	Hi I have always been interested in counters. I have a bunch of different ones and types. Even one that counts in "Emans". When the family goes to Colorado ..I...	wildhorselisa	Sep 6, 2003 5:45 am
129	... I just bought some of George's Zns disks on eBay, I'll let you know how I get on with them. This is the third item I've bought from K0FF ( I'm G8RPI, so...	Robert Atkinson robert8rpi	Sep 6, 2003 8:56 am
130	Thanks all!!! And i'll have a closer look at eBay for those ZnS disks... Normand VE2UM ... price. ... reasonable ... as ... From ... $4.95. ... K0FF...	martelno	Sep 6, 2003 1:21 pm
131	Also my favorite book on the subject is Nuclear Radiation Detection by William Price. 63-23463 It has answered many questions for me. By the way what does one...	wildhorselisa	Sep 6, 2003 6:20 pm
132	I keep both functioning and no-functioning dosimeters in my collection. The non-functioning ones are great to hand around, esp. if they go across scale at a...	Dave angelshamshel	Sep 6, 2003 7:43 pm
135	Hi, The Zns disks turned up promptly from Geoelectronics (as usual great service from K0FF). They work fine, a Am241 source from a smoke detector causes them...	Robert Atkinson robert8rpi	Sep 11, 2003 8:40 am
136	Thanks for the replies in this group!!!! I have some more questions.... I'm searching for a website that gives the radiation energies (Alpha, beta & gamma) of...	martelno	Sep 11, 2003 3:58 pm
137	Hi Normand, For Isotope data have a look at :- http://ie.lbl.gov/toi/radSearch.asp http://www.amptek.com/gamma8k.html This link is also usefull ...	Robert Atkinson robert8rpi	Sep 11, 2003 4:57 pm
138	Here's a site that provides a nice table of the nuclides: http://www2.bnl.gov/ton/ I appears to include the alpha, beta, gamma decay eneriges. Cheers, Charlie ...	Charlie Thompson w5cdt	Sep 17, 2003 2:55 am
139	Robert, Congrats on a great eBay find! -Charlie W5CDT ... great ... Gamma ... reserve. ... it! ... 3" ... when ... Atkinson" ... and ... own. ... at ... they ...	Charlie Thompson w5cdt	Sep 17, 2003 3:00 am
140	Thanks a lot!!!! This site (http://www2.bnl.gov/ton) from the Brookhaven National Laboratory is very complete.... It's already in my bookmarks!!!! Normand...	martelno	Sep 17, 2003 3:44 pm
141	Thanks a lot!!!! This site (http://www2.bnl.gov/ton) from the Brookhaven National Laboratory is very complete.... It's already in my bookmarks!!!! Normand...	martelno	Sep 17, 2003 3:45 pm
142	Thanks a lot!!!! This site (http://www2.bnl.gov/ton) from the Brookhaven National Laboratory is very complete.... It's already in my bookmarks!!!! Normand...	martelno	Sep 17, 2003 3:45 pm
143	I recently rec'd my GEO Spin-3 scope and was very impressed with the construction of the device. Unlike 99% of the stuff sold nowadays, this was very solid and...	Jim jmarkitell	Sep 17, 2003 4:44 pm
145	Ion chamber instruments come in a variety of types. Most are vented to the atmosphere, some are pressurized etc. Recently a Ludlum Model 17 came in and I had a...	K0FF	Sep 20, 2003 2:48 am
146	George we're there any CDV related ion-chamber devices produced with any sort of reasonable sensitivity like the Ludlum? From my research, the only mass...	Dave angelshamshel	Sep 20, 2003 3:26 am
147	No useful projects for the CDV ion chambers that I have found, with the exception of "borrowing" the meter from the few with the metal type that can be taken...	K0FF	Sep 20, 2003 1:08 pm
148	... magnifying ... Good point. PRI discs also glow in the dark ( at least some do, some were Radium, some were Uranium). My guess is back in the 50's the...	K0FF	Sep 20, 2003 1:14 pm
149	Without testing the check source chemically, it has the same general appearance of radium paint. I contacted the seller and he said it probably came from a...	Cav427@... night427	Sep 20, 2003 6:47 pm
150	Currently, According to their web page, United Nuclear is selling out of spec fuel pellets! Just in case someone is interested. ...	Cav427@... night427	Sep 20, 2003 9:36 pm
151	Unfortunately most all GM and scintillation detectors are "energy dependant". Basically this means the number of pulses the probe will give off depends on the...	K0FF	Sep 22, 2003 11:00 pm
152	After reading many postings from much more educated individuals than myself, It seems as though Modifying My Dosimeter Model 3700 with a Pancake probe would be...	Cav427@... night427	Sep 25, 2003 1:14 am
153	Chris, the 3700 looks a lot like a standard 700 in style and size. My experience with external probes is that their generally expensive to incorporate. If you...	Dave angelshamshel	Sep 25, 2003 11:53 am
154	Convert mR readings to uCi values: The "Specific Exposure Rate Constant", sometimes known as the "Gamma Factor", is the exposure rate at a specific distance...	K0FF	Sep 25, 2003 10:44 pm
155	Latest and greatest. Not a CDV700 in the lot. Catalog of nuclear and biologic/ chemical detectors: ...	K0FF	Sep 27, 2003 1:45 pm

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