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The glass wall of a Geiger-Müller (GM) tube must be very thin to allow ionizing radiation to penetrate easily and interact with the gas inside the tube. A thicker wall would absorb or scatter some of the radiation, reducing the tube's sensitivity and accuracy in detecting low levels of radiation. Additionally, a thin wall minimizes the energy loss of the incoming particles before they can ionize the gas, ensuring a more effective detection process.

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Why must a Geiger Muller tube for detecting alpha particles have very high thin end window?

A GM (Geiger-Muller) tube for detecting alpha particles must have a very thin window because alpha particles are highly interactive, and they can be stopped with very little, such as only a few inches of air, a sheet of paper, your skin, etc. Typical GM detectors for alpha application use mylar as the window. Even so, the mylar does interfere with the alpha detection, but this is better than nothing.


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I think you mean 'capillarity' which happens in very thin tubes because the adhesive forces between water and glass molecules is greater than the cohesive force between water molecules alone. In narrow tubes, this is enough to pull the liquid up the tube.


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A cover slip is a very thin piece of glass used to cover a sample on a microscope slide. It stops the sample from getting on to the objective lens of the microscope.


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It depends on the tube's construction. Assuming a graduation every one millimetre, a 50 mm high tube can measure to +/- 0.5 ml accuracy. A 200 mm high (very thin!) tube, also with one mm graduations, is four times as accurate. You need to state the smallest actual graduation to get your answer, and be aware that the liquid's meniscus affects reading confidence.

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