Re:Ask HN: Why don't transistors in microchips fail?
by TheLoneWolfling on Friday July 10, 2015 @09:18AM
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Water has a halving thickness of ~18cm for gamma rays. So a fair bit.
Unfortunately, most other things are also of the same order of magnitude of ~20g/cm^2 - with gamma rays the single most important thing is just "how much mass is in the way". Which is exactly what you don't want.
Unfortunately, most other things are also of the same order of magnitude of ~20g/cm^2 - with gamma rays the single most important thing is just "how much mass is in the way". Which is exactly what you don't want.