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What type of radiation is best detected by a scintillation counter?
Ionizing radiation
Which one of the following is physical stressor lead ionizing radiation hcv or hbv?
ionizing radiation
What is the difference between Geiger Muller counter and scintillation?
A Geiger-Muller (GM) detector works on the principle that the ionizing radiation interacts with a charged gas, knocks off an electron, and that electron cascades into more electrons, inducing a pulse in the positively charged anode, which is then detected and counted by the electronics. A scintillation detector work on the priciple that ionizing radiation interacts with some kind of scintillating material, such as Thallium Doped Sodium Iodide, producing a light pulse (gamma burst) that is detected by a photomultiplier tube, and then detected and counted by the electronics. In both cases, you can operate in cascade mode, where you simply count every event, or you can operate in linear mode, where you also measure the energy of the events, quantifying the effective dose, or building a spectral representation of the radiation field.
How can an electrical insulator can be made a conductor?
By ionizing it
Which ionizing radiation is least penetrating?
alpha
What type of radiation is best detected by a scintillation counter?
Ionizing radiation
Alpha is it ionizing?
Yes, alpha radiation is an ionizing radiation.
Can radiation be detected because it ionizes the atoms it affects?
Ionizing radiation is only one type of radiation. Visible light, for example, falls under the category of electromagnetic radiation. Radiation has many different detectable consequences.
Which type of radiation is most likely to damage DNA ionizing or nonionizing?
Ionizing
Is ultrasound ionizing?
No.
Would you classify radiation as ionizing radiation?
Yes, but there are a number of radiation besides ionizing radiation.
What is it called when x-ray are initially absorbed by the body?
ionizing radiation
Discuss the effects of ionizing radiation on cellular constituents?
what are the effects of ionizing radiation on cellular constituents
Which one of the following is physical stressor lead ionizing radiation hcv or hbv?
ionizing radiation
How do you use the word ionizing in a sentence?
Some air cleaning systems work by ionizing and trapping dust particles. Ionizing radiation, such as gamma rays, can severely damage living cells.
Are there greater ionizing or non-ionizing industrial hazards in the US?
The use of ionizing radiation in the American workplace has been substantially reduced during the last 30-40 years. As a result of that reduction, have the hazards of non-ionizing radiation used in the workplace become greater than the remaining hazards of ionizing radiation still in use? There are no readily accessible studies to tell us whether or not that has happened, and mostly it does not matter. The important thing is to deal correctly with all the radiation hazards, ionizing and non-ionizing, that are present in each particular workplace.
What is are the type of ionizing radiation?
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