Re:GGReg20_V3 Geiger counter module: examples of interesting...
by leaving on Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:05AM
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"GGreg20_V3 is an inexpensive and useful device for checking the “purity” of: mushrooms, berries, vegetables, firewood, etc."
I suppose that might be true, in a sense, if you live in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl.
Otherwise, the statement is absolute nonsense.
The SBM-20 (the cheap Russian Geiger-Muller tube used in the project) is not going to pick up anything from those sources. It's not sensitive to alpha, and not very sensitive in general.
I suppose that might be true, in a sense, if you live in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl.
Otherwise, the statement is absolute nonsense.
The SBM-20 (the cheap Russian Geiger-Muller tube used in the project) is not going to pick up anything from those sources. It's not sensitive to alpha, and not very sensitive in general.
* https://optics.org/products/P000023046
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillator
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_spectroscopy