Radioactivity Induced in Commercial Materials
Description:
Six structural materials (aluminum 2S, aluminum 72S, copper, iron, steel, lead and bismuth) were irradiated for about 100 kilowatt hours in the center of the Argonne pile. The alpha and gamma decays were then followed for 130 days on Geiger counters and are presented here graphically as number of rays per minute per gram per kilowatt hour vs. time of decay. A quantitative interpretation of the gamma-ray decay curves gave fair agreement with the chemical analysis of impurities found in the mater…
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Date:
February 12, 1944
Creator:
Seren, Leo, 1918-; Sturm, W.; Moyer, W.; Miller, G. & Jordan, W.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department