No 2 Leader of Terror Group say America is loseing war!

*yawn*

Please do bother clicking on the link.

A "Geiger counter" usually contains a metal tube with a thin metal wire along its middle, the space in between them sealed off and filled with a suitable gas, and with the wire at about +1000 volts relative to the tube.

An ion or electron penetrating the tube (or an electron knocked out of the wall by X-rays or gamma rays) tears electrons off atoms in the gas, and because of the high positive voltage of the central wire, those electrons are then attracted to it. In doing so they gain energy, collide with atoms and release more electrons, until the process snowballs into an "avalanche" which produces an easily detectable pulse of current. With a suitable filling gas, the flow of electricity stops by itself, or else the electrical circuitry can help stop it.

Geiger counters are accurate enough to be the primary radiation measuring tool everywhere. The Geiger that my dad brought home once could detect radiation sources as weak as the regular TV.

Film is used in X-ray rooms for the very obvious reason. It is not the radiation measuring that the X-ray rooms are for, it is the diagnosis of broken bones, for which a picture is much more useful than radiation level numbers :roll:

 

Neutronium is a myth, just like gravity and income taxes.

 

This made me laugh hard. Inside my head at least. Charles calling someone stupid is like the pot writing, producing and starring in a Broadway production about the kettle being a dirty motherfucking nigger.

Charles, either give us proof of your physics doctorate, or link to a credible website with proof. I remember enough of my physics to know that of three types of radiation, one is long ranged and weak, one is short ranged and powerful, and one is inbetween or somesuch. At any rate there's only one that's really harmful, and you basically have to be exposed to a huge amount or over a long period of time to be seriously affected by it. I mean, look how long chemotherapy takes to be effective.

 

What the hell are you trying to say to us, alien?

 

Geiger counter have given off alarm than report of radiactive like your tv set, your mercury temp measureing device is only accurate inside than certain temp range, near mercury freezing point of -40 f and -40 c the tempurate reading get inacurate. Tech wear film to detect than x-ray machine or gammar ray machine leaking radiation as only x-ray and gamma ray can cause than chemical reaction in the film. They even make film that measure microwave radiation from microwave oven. Have you ever wonder why x-ray room tech, nuclear tech wear badge of film instead of geiger counter. Reread my post. You remain me of than person in chemisty lad who was heating up nitric acid in a test tude than he have the tude point toward himself , I told him to never have it point toward himself or anyboby self for that matter, instead have it point at the concete wall instead. Than other one useing than scale that can measure accurate to only .001 gram and doing the math work to .000000001 gram place, your math can only be as accurate as your least accurate measure is. Than supid I did read the link if you check your link detector counter latest. In chemic lab I work with than scale that is accurate to .00001 gram that cost 10,000 dollar that is place on a special built table that cost 25000 dollar than the floor under the table is special make that cost than other 25000 dollar so people walking by it cannot throw it off.

 

Alpha, Beta, Gamma Radiation.
Alpha: 2p+,2n0 - slow and heavy, can be stopped by a sheet of paper, but ionize other things strongly (are really bad for you)
Beta: e- fast and light, can be stopped by a sheet of aluminum, ionize, but not nearly as badly as Alpha
Gamma: waves, not particles. Stop them? with a thick sheet of lead, maybe. They do not directly ionise other particles, but may cause atoms to emit particles that cause ionisation

chemotherapy: the use of chemical agents in the treatment or control of disease or mental illness
Chemo and radiation treatment are in fact different things, chemotherapy is when they put things into your body that are horribly poisonous, but hopefully more poisionous to the cancer cells than to the rest of you.

So strangely enough, Charles has been right about a few things, which other, more intelligent/intelligible members of the forum have been wrong on. But to fix some of my agreeing with Charles:

The experiments you are referring actually did not cause the idea of matter being mostly empty at all, they actually caused the idea of a highly dense, positive nucleus, the surprising thing in the gold foil experiment was in fact that some of the ions were basically reflected.
Yes, matter is mostly empty, but your proof is wrong. And what the hell Neutronium has to do with it, I don't know.

 

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! LOCK THIS THREAD!!!!!!

I'm sure there are people out there that agree.

 

What, once science comes into the thread you need to lock it? What are you, antiscience? Is that it you, are you against education? ANSWER THE QUESTION HO!

 

It has been a while since I've seen a six-page thread on the topic of radiation and crap, I must admit.

 

Science can wait! DEMOCRACY NOW!!!!

Name the song that that lyric came from, and the band, and you'll be my new favorite T-A member.

 

Gamma, light, x-ray can act as both wave and particle have no charge which mean they cannot be attact or repelled by charges, since the electon that ordit each atom can occup one positon at than time the change of gamma ray hit one is very small, the change of than nucli being
hit by than gamma ray is even smaller so than g-counter isnot very useful to detect x-ray or gamma ray leak.
In that experiment they use alpha particle I believe. It they have use gamma ray it would have being different. They have to use gamma ray to kill my grandmother cancer as it was safter than chemotherapy consider her general poor heath it took only 3 treatment of gamma ray.
There are star know as neutron star, neutronium can block neutrion which
can pentrate 6 trillion mile of lead which are make in most sun. It took scientist billions of dollar and many year to finaly prove they exsition.
They now belive there might be quark star make up of quarkium.

 

Sleek: Mission of Burma?

Charles: congratulations, you're back to stupid, near illegibility!

 

Neutronium would make great armour foa a tank ,000000001 mm of it plateing steel will be so tought that not even DU round can go thought it, the major cause of Gulf War illness was dust from DU rounds, this is america illegality WMD use in war. I CC(cubit centmeter) have the mass of 1 billion metric tons or more. Quarkium is than new theory like neutronium was in the 1920' and 1930. They have prove the exsitance of neutron star also called pulstar.

The real reason for the Iraq War was oil, the Alaska and North Sea Oil field are nearly empty now.

 

Neutronium? Tank armor? WTF??
Do you know how much that would weigh, Charles? :roll:

 

Icairus got the band at least, good job.

 

yea, you don't build anything out of neutronium, at least not if you expect it to move.

 

Not too much it the layer on your steel plate is 0.000000001 mm thick or 1/ billionth mm thin.

 

Sure, because there's that much neutronium around that it could be done. Never mind putting it to a better use, such as a reusable space craft of some kind. Because hey, the Earth is going to be able to sustain us all forever right?

 

Certain than reactionless space enginer would have to be invent also.

 

Not necessarily, you just need to make sure there is no possibility of a reaction involving the neutronium. And what has been known as a "solar sailboat" has also been invented, a large "sail" of metal is opened so that it can be barraged by the millions of particles that stream constantly from the sun. The momentum drives the ship forward, and if need by, a reaction can be released in order to drive additional particles into the metal.