These muon particles are heavyweight cousins of electrons that travel close to the speed of light. They can penetrate through ...

Both ionizing and non-ionizing radiation can be harmful to both organisms and the natural environment. Radiation testers either measure the levels of Ionizing or non-ionizing radiation from Nuclear ...

The instinctive reaction when measuring nuclear radiation is to think of a Geiger counter, as the low-pressure gas tube detectors have entered our popular culture through the Cold War. A G-M tube ...

ALTHOUGH the most common high-sensitivity detectors now in use for gas chromatography ... helium for argon as the carrier gas. The ionization chamber was a standard 1 cm. × 1 cm.