G'day Robert,

robertatairstream wrote:
> 5) Holding the alpha particle source close increases these pulses and turning
it away decreases.

this sounds a little strange to me, since alphas won't go
thru the glass of the tube. Most likely your source also
produces a good amount of gammas and that is what you see.

Cheers,
Hannes.
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