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From: howard@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Howard Steel)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Nuclear Radiation Detector
Message-ID: <186@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 90 13:01:39 GMT
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In article <1028@ux.acs.umn.edu> keith@ux.acs.umn.edu (Keith MaloneyHuss)
writes:
>I am looking for some information about a surplus device I came across.
>It is some sort of radiation detector.

		<description deleted>

It sounds very much like a personal, pocket radiation dosimeter. The military
and others use one that looks like a tiny hockey puck (about the size of a
dollar coin, in either country, but much thicker) that can be hung on a chain
with your dog tags; or the one you describe that sounds like the pocket clip
version.
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