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From: neal@lynx.uucp (Neal Woodall)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Radiation Detectors/Counters
Summary: mica glass passes alphas....
Message-ID: <5523@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 89 01:36:30 GMT
References: <5499@lynx.UUCP> <1240005@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Reply-To: neal@lynx.UUCP (Neal Woodall)
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In article <1240005@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> ron@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Ron Miller) writes:

>Alpha strikes in a G-M detection are non-events. The particle can't 
>get into the tube!

I have seen Geiger tubes with mica end windows for detecting alphas...the
alphas will indeed pass through the mica.



Neal