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The age of a bone was to be determined by 14C dating. 14C has a half-life of 5,730 years, and a Geiger counter shows that the
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A Geiger counter measures redioactive decay by registering the electrical pulsed produced in a gas tube when high-energy
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1. A Geiger counter measures radiation indirectly by measuringflashes of light electrons released by ionization speaker static
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Which of the following would not be used to detect radioactivity?photographic film Geiger counter battery cloud chamber
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would radiation levels in natural versus man-made objects be a good science fair project? I can borrow a geiger counter
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The instrument that is commonly used to measure the intensity of radioactivity is called a _____.photographic plate Geiger
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A certain Geiger counter is known to respond to only 1 of every 1000 radiation events from a sample. Calculate the activity of
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A certain Geiger counter is known to respond to only 1 of every 1000 radiation events from a sample. Calculate the activity of
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A radioactive substance is found to register 1000 counts per second on a Geiger counter. Twenty-four hours later it registers
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A simple Geiger counter is constructed out of a setup similar to what we justused in problem 5. A thin wire with a linear charge
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