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noun atom, bit, component part, crumb, cutting, fragment, grain, granule, hint, mite, modicum, moiety, molecule, morsel, piece, pittance, point, scintilla, snippet, speck, spot, suggestion, trace

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Alpha and beta particles outside the body are typically not a

The Japanese nuclear incident: technical aspects

Shown in Figure 1 are the results of formation measurement performed using a beta particle absorption technique (distribution of w in equation 1) for a sheet of paperboard made by the Vortigen technology and a standard sheet with approximately the same value of average basis weight.

Effect of formation hydrodynamics on mechanical properties of container materials

Dozens of radioactive elements emit an alpha or beta particle, sometimes both.

Nuclear medicine gets friendlier; experimental therapies seek to poison just the disease

In 1914, however, the English physicist James Chadwick (1891-1974) showed that this was not true of beta particles.

Beta-particle energies

Since the neptunium isotope that had been located emitted beta particles, it had to gain another unit in atomic number and produce element number 94, which was named plutonium, for the planet Pluto.

Neptunium and plutonium

Going back 57 minutes in their records, they noticed the twin trails of a beta particle and an emitted orbital electron coming from the same spot.

Radioactivity on the spot

specifications: full leather personal dosimeter optimally stimulable capacity to register hp effective dose 10 of 10 usv 10 sv, beta particles and 200 to 250 msv for usv neutrons.

Dosimetry service personal full for 53 users, for 7 months, dental medicine, radiology, urology and salon d eoperaciones includes activation dosimeters, transport and reporting reading per month. spec

It can detect alpha and beta particles when fitted with a very thin window.

Exploratory Assessment of In Situ Measurements of Radioactivity for Single Source

Beta radiation is a particulate radiation consisting of high-speed electrons, which are rapidly attenuated by biological tissues (2 MeV beta particles have a range of only 1cm in water) (LOMMATZSCH, 1977; REBHUN, 1990; KIRWAN et al.

Beta therapy with [sup.90]strontium as single modality therapy for canine squamous cell carcinoma in third eyelid/Betaterapia com estroncio-90 como modalidade unica de terapia para o carcinoma de celulas escamosas na terceira palpebra em caes

It detects radiation such as alpha particles, beta particles and gamma rays using the ionization produced in a Geiger--ME-ller tube, which gives its name to the instrument.

ISS Science Garage - Geiger Counters in Space

The polymer is doped with a phosphor, emitting visible light when irradiated by the beta particles from the tritium.

Light-Emitting Polymers

Common contaminants that may be present in municipal water, and well water, include fluoride, if more than 4 ppm, arsenic III and V, chlorine if over 4 ppm, chloramines, chromium 6, lead, pesticides, radioactivity as radon gas, radium, uranium, alpha and beta particles, nitrates, mercury, bacteria, iron and hydrogen sulfide.

New List of Common Water Contaminants and How to Remove Them at The Water Exchange Website, West Bloomfield, Michigan

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