... get away ... What's the new version got that the older ones don't? Oddly enough, two xmases ago, my boss gave his underlings a trit light with the company...
... A Health Physicist is what a Radiation Safety Officer is sometimes called ---note the missing scary word. I've worked for a "medical physicist", also a...
I just remembered what it was that some HP-type contacted me about then had pulled from eBay ~2 years ago ... heavy elements. Its actually illegal to dispose...
www.ebay.ca? We see all the European stuff up here..... Miss some of the U.S. stuff as it just doesn't show up like it should.....and Geo pointed me to my RM-4...
... Oh, but it gets worse! The American Museum of Atomic Energy in Oak Ridge, TN is now the American Museum of _Science_ and Energy! And finally, the cereal...
... The solution to atomic weenies, wusses, and the pc crowd is to put the word "atomic", "nuclear", or "radiation" in to everything, especially medical....
People, People, People! Be careful how you edit those strings you're replying to. Somehow, this one got chopped in a way that the quote is attributed to the ...
I guess Fischer Scinetific and all the other educational suppliers are deplorable to you too. We all sell the same educational, safe material. Used by schools...
Norm Hubele, AKA "refracisback" on ebay, seems to speak out of both sides of his mouth. While he complains about people selling radioactive materials, he...
Afraid of some competition then.....maybe? Geo has always been accurate and truthful with his ads / product and has gone out of the way to help his customers...
Good Reply, but unfortunately he is living in his own world where he is trying to save us all from you. Obviously he doesn't know much about radioactivity or...
Hypocrite is a better description of Norm as he apparently doesn't mind buying it in a clearly unsafe form rather than in a legal manner as an NRC regulated...
FYI from the web, and assuming the ebayer hasn't just assumed his identity. "Norman Hubele is the President of Refrac Systems in Chandler, AZ -- a production...
I'm going to fire up the lathe and make a few spinthariscopes for friends. Can anyone here tell me what the optimum eyepiece magnification should be? Any...
eypiece magnification should be from 5 to 10 power. The more power, the more critical is the focus ( less depth of field) The power used will determine the...
... *Sounds like you lathe is steam powerd. Mine runs off electricty. Original lathes ran from muscle power. A rope was looped around a high tree branch and...
Inside any discharge tube is a fill gas that ionizes when it encounters a charge that exceeds it's breakover potential. Some examples of discharge tubes are...
... capable of ... yield ... only ... the fourth ... indicated to me ... Does dead-time include the fact that sometimes more than one alpha enters the detector...
KOFF, Thanks for your reply. Your two messages on Page1, #1320 and #1347, pretty much describe what I was going to try. It's too bad Yahoo has purged the...
I also assume this to be the case. even far below saturation levels, the reading given on my Ludlum 2500 are higher when the "live-time" switch is activated. I...
Why is it so speedy? Or: How much light will fit into a bottle?* Some time ago our discussion wandered to the subject of matter and energy, and someone asked...
... by some ... precise ... So do people in a dentists office. They each try to maximize their space. The emergent result is equally spaced birds. Blind...
Yes i have find strange the name "NORM"... SO it's real ? Is a other seller that lose his buyers ? If he is real, why are searching radioactive toys ?? What he...
... You may not be getting the pun... there is an english name Norman; NORM means naturally occurring radioactive materials. Ie rocks, brazil nuts, etc. Now...
Norm Alara, was'nt he the famous Vampire in the myth, Count Geiger? Geo ... From: DH [mailto:revtkatt@...] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:06 AM To:...
Muons are often created when Cosmic Rays collide with the atmosphere. These muons typically have high velocities around 99.98% of the speed of light. Using...
Your musings in physics made me wonder about the time relative to an observer and the actual Muon, or in Sci Fi Terms, the passage of time relative to an earth...
Didn't know what ALARA was, so I looked it up on the web. Imagine my confusion when I found this link for the Australian Ladies' Amateur Radio Association: ...
Found an amusing little web-resource from our friends at Greenpeace: http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/nukes/chernob/rep02.html It's a calendar of nuclear...