Re: Rad Sources for Workshops

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

I had forgotten about the lantern mantles. Also wonder about prescribed

potassium chloride tablets which I'll bet are even a bit stronger than

No-Salt. I have to use tablets of Klor-Con M20 daily with lasix and I'll

bet for your purposes, you could find a helpful physician or pharmacist.

I still am trying without success to track down the relative

radioactivity characteristics of smoke detectors, lantern mantles,

No-Salt, and FiestaWare.

Cheers,

Maury            maury@webtexas.com

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"Franta, Jaroslav" wrote:



> I'm curious -- do they have similar rules for when you remove a lamp

> mantle from a lamp ?

> The package I have in my collection (two No.21 "Silk-Lite" mantles)

> gives a higher cps Geiger reading than just about anything else I have

> -- including a smoke detector source and a bunch of high-grade uranium

> ore samples -- this might be because the mantles have been stored in a

> plastic pouch for many years (their original package) and all the

> volatile decay daughters are nicely trapped in it.

> Note also that the smoke detector source is a metal plate, only one

> side of which has the 1.0 µCi Am-241 plated on it -- > ...  Is there

> any reasonable way you might obtain and use of smoke detector elements

> as sources?



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