Re[2]: 137Cs check sources -Reply

[James Huesgen <JIMH@fsrad1.hsc.missouri.edu>]

I thought, and have taught several thousand students, that the problem was
because of the long resolving time of the GM tube itself.  The tube takes
several hundred microseconds to recover from the electron cascade and is
unable to detect a second event during that time.  If this is not the case,
I'll change my tune.

Thanks in advance.
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