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Re: Rad Sources for Workshops
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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