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Instrument for detecting radioactivity

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A device generically called a Radiac, however there are dozens of different kinds of Radiacs which operate by different principles and measure different things. Some are:

  • geiger-mueller counter
  • rate meter
  • ionization chamber meter
  • scintillation counter
  • electrometer dosimeter
  • ionization chamber dosimeter
  • photographic film dosimeter
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A Geiger counter
Geiger counter
a neurometer
A Geiger-Muller counter

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Geiger counter

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Geiger muller counter

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Geiger counter .

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A Geiger counter.

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Geiger Muller tube with ratemeter.

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It's called a Geiger counter.

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The Geiger counter.

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