{"id":2941,"date":"2013-03-14T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-05-27T17:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T00:21:46","slug":"2941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/2941","title":{"rendered":"How can you tell whether you have alpha, beta, or gamma radiation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first experiment in our book <a href=\"\/product\/nuclear-radiation-with-vernier\/\"><i>Nuclear Radiation with Vernier<\/i><\/a> (<nobr>NRV-E<\/nobr>) is all about this subject. Details and the table of contents can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/nrv\">https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/nrv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following is an excerpt from <em>Nuclear Radiation with Vernier<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>To determine the type of radiation (alpha, beta or gamma), first determine the background count rate, then the source count rate with no absorber. Next, place a sheet of paper between the source and the monitor. If the counts are significantly reduced, the source emits alpha particles. If the count rate is not significantly reduced, place a 2 mm thick sheet of aluminum between the source and the monitor. If the count rate goes almost to the background level, the source is emitting beta particles. If the count rate is only reduced, the source is a gamma source.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first experiment in our book is all about this subject. Details and the table of contents can be found at https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/nrv The following is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4949,3778,4947,4950,729,4946,4948],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-alpha","tag-beta","tag-drm","tag-gamma","tag-radiation","tag-srm","tag-vrm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}