Cornkid
Flashlight Enthusiast
A few weeks ago my Physics teacher was showing us his geiger counter. It was ticking because he had been injected with a radioactive dye, and he wanted to show that he was indeed radioactive.
I told him I had a tritium vial on my flashlight, and offered it to be measured. He took it and his geiger counter reacted quite obviously; it began to tick faster; I was warned to keep my flashlight out of my pants pocket
I am currently in Munich with my grandparents and they have 3 geiger counters (rock collecting and Chernobyl). Now, today we did some measurements. Without my flashlight, the geiger counter measured .04 u(pico)SV / hour, presumably from cosmic radiation. With the light/tritium vial, we received a measurement of 0.14 u(pico)SV / hour!! Although this measurement is weak, it is in itself fairly disturbing.
Any other comments/ measurements?
-tom
I told him I had a tritium vial on my flashlight, and offered it to be measured. He took it and his geiger counter reacted quite obviously; it began to tick faster; I was warned to keep my flashlight out of my pants pocket
I am currently in Munich with my grandparents and they have 3 geiger counters (rock collecting and Chernobyl). Now, today we did some measurements. Without my flashlight, the geiger counter measured .04 u(pico)SV / hour, presumably from cosmic radiation. With the light/tritium vial, we received a measurement of 0.14 u(pico)SV / hour!! Although this measurement is weak, it is in itself fairly disturbing.
Any other comments/ measurements?
-tom
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