Re: latex stopping power

[LIPTONW@detroitedison.com]

I've always said, "One peek is worth 1000 finesses."  Why don't you take a 
P-32 source, a glove, and a survey meter and find out? 
 
The opinions expressed are strictly mine. 
Here's to a risk free world, and other fantasies. 
 
Bill Lipton 
liptonw@detroitedison.com

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• To: Multiple,recipients,of,list,radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
• Subject: Re: latex stopping power
• From: "radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu" <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
• Date: 07 Apr 97 15:30:19
• Reply-to: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu

Have you tried ICRU 37 entitled Stopping Powers for Electrons and Positrons
(1984) ??


At 01:39 PM 4/7/97 -0500, you wrote:
>     Could someone direct me to a table of stopping powers for latex with a 
>     density of about 0.94 g/cc? I gather that the vulcanization process 
>     can add minerals to the latex, but that 95% of the material is .88 
>     Carbon and .12 Hydrogen by weight. The application is to find what 
>     sort of protection against the beta particles was afforded by the 
>     double gloves worn by an investigator working with P-32. 
>     Thanks
>     
>     Mark How
>     University of California, San Francisco
>     (415) 476-5303 voice
>     (415) 476-0581 fax
>
>
>
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Roger Sit
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
rsithp@slac.stanford.edu

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